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Neither of theain at present To have

reversed a previous arrangeo out would have been

a show of persistent anger which Dorothea's conscience shrank frouilty However just her

indignation ive

tenderness So when the carriage came to the door, she drove with Mr

Casaubon to the Vatican, walked with hih the stony avenue of

inscriptions, and when she parted with hih the Museum out of mere listlessness as to what

was around her She had not spirit to turn round and say that she

would drive anywhere It hen Mr Casaubon was quitting her that

Nauallery of

sculpture at the same time with her; but here Naumann had to await

Ladislahoure there After they had exa their dispute, they had parted,

Ladislaw lingering behind while Nauain saw Dorothea, and saw her in that brooding

abstraction which made her pose reht on the floorthe light of years to colish fields and el that

the way in which they ht be filled with joyful devotedness was not

so clear to her as it had been But in Dorothea'swere apt sooner or later to

flow--the reaching forward of the whole consciousness towards the

fullest truth, the least partial good There was clearly soer and despondency