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"Of course there is always a great deal of poor work: the rarer things

want that soil to grow in"

"Oh dear," said Dorothea, taking up that thought into the chief current

of her anxiety; "I see it ood

I have often felt since I have been in Rolier andthan the pictures, if they

could be put on the wall"

Dorothea parted her lips again as if she were going to say more, but

changed her --it is an anachronisetically, with a quick shake of the head

habitual to him "You talk as if you had never known any youth It is

monstrous--as if you had had a vision of Hades in your childhood, like

the boy in the legend You have been brought up in some of those

horrible notions that choose the sweetest woo and be shut up in that stone prison at

Lowick: you will be buried alive It e to think of it!

I would rather never have seen you than think of you with such a

prospect"

Will again feared that he had gone too far; but the , and his tone of angry regret had so