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"I have so to tell you about our cousin Mr Ladislahich I

think will heighten your opinion of him," said Dorothea to her husband

in the coarse of the evening She had one away, and would coain, but Mr

Casaubon had said, "I met hi this with the air and tone by which we imply that any

subject, whether private or public, does not interest us enough to wish

for a further remark upon it So Dorothea had waited

"What is that, my love?" said Mr Casaubon (he always said "my love"

when his manner was the coldest)

"He has ive up

his dependence on your generosity He land, and work his oay I thought you would consider that a

good sign," said Dorothea, with an appealing look into her husband's

neutral face

"Did he mention the precise order of occupation to which he would

addict hier which lay for hienerosity Of course he rite to you about it Do you not think