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Either because his interest in this work thrust the incident of the

signature from his memory, or for some reason of which Caleb was norant of the affair

Since it occurred, a change had come over Fred's sky, which altered his

view of the distance, and was the reason why his uncle Featherstone's

present of o, first with a too definite expectation, and afterwards with a

proportionate disappoint his examination,

had e debts the more unpardonable by his

father, and there had been an unprecedented stor et his living how he could; and he had never

yet quite recovered his good-hued his that he did

not want to be a clergyo on with that"

Fred was conscious that he would have been yet more severely dealt with

if his faarded hientle in the stead of more exemplary conduct--just

as when a youthful nobleman steals jewellery we call the act

kleptomania, speak of it with a philosophical s sent to the house of correction as if he were a ragged boy

who had stolen turnips In fact, tacit expectations of ould be

done for hile at which most

people viewed Fred Vincy in Middlemarch; and in his own consciousness,

what uncle Featherstone would do for hiency, or what he

would do simply as an incorporated luck, formed always an immeasurable