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To this mental estate mapped out a quarter of a century before, to

sensibilities thus fenced in, Mr Casaubon had thought of annexing

happiness with a lovely young bride; but even before e, as we

have seen, he found himself under a new depression in the consciousness

that the new bliss was not blissful to him Inclination yearned back

to its old, easier custom And the deeper he went in do hi with propriety

predoion and

erudition, nay, like authorship itself, was fated to become an outward

require uni Dorothea into use in his study,

according to his own intention before e, was an effort which he

was always teht never have begun But she had succeeded init a matter of

course that she should take her place at an early hour in the library

and have work either of reading aloud or copying assigned her The

work had been easier to define because Mr Casaubon had adopted an

ion, a s the Egyptian mysteries

whereby certain assertions of Warburton's could be corrected

References were extensive even here, but not altogether shoreless; and