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"Sit down," she added, placing herself on the nearest chair, and

throwing off her bonnet and gloves, with an instinctive discarding of

forreat question of destiny was concerned

"What you say now justifies ate "I think it is

one's function as a rets of that sort as far

as possible But I beg you to observe that Mr Casaubon's case is

precisely of the kind in which the issue is most difficult to pronounce

upon He may possibly live for fifteen years or more, without much

worse health than he has had hitherto"

Dorothea had turned very pale, and when Lydgate paused she said in a

low voice, "You ainst ainst

excessive application"

"He would be ive up his work," said Dorothea,

with a quick prevision of that wretchedness

"I am aware of that The only course is to try by all means, direct

and indirect, to moderate and vary his occupations With a happy

concurrence of circuer

from that affection of the heart, which I believe to have been the

cause of his late attack On the other hand, it is possible that the

disease may develop itself more rapidly: it is one of those eases in

which death is soht be affected by such an issue"