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Certainly this affair of his e with Miss Brooke touched him more

nearly than it did any one of the persons who have hitherto shown their

disapproval of it, and in the present stage of things I feel more

tenderly towards his experience of success than towards the

disappointment of the amiable Sir Jae ca; nor did the contearden

scene, where, as all experience showed, the path was to be bordered

with flowers, prove persistentlyto him than the

accustomed vaults where he walked taper in hand He did not confess to

himself, still less could he have breathed to another, his surprise

that though he had won a lovely and noble-hearted girl he had not won

delight,--which he had also regarded as an object to be found by

search It is true that he knew all the classical passages ies, we find, is a mode of

motion, which explains why they leave so little extra force for their

personal application

Poor Mr Casaubon had i studious bachelorhood had

stored up for hie