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Opening her own letter Dorothea saw that it was a lively continuation

of his remonstrance with her fanatical sys as they were--an outpouring of his young

vivacity which it was impossible to read just now She had immediately

to consider as to be done about the other letter: there was still

ti to Lowick Dorothea ended by

giving the letter to her uncle, as still in the house, and begging

him to let Will know that Mr Casaubon had been ill, and that his

health would not allow the reception of any visitors

No one more ready than Mr Brooke to write a letter: his only

difficulty was to write a short one, and his ideas in this case

expanded over the three large pages and the inward foldings He had

simply said to Dorothea--

"To be sure, I rite,Ladislaw--I dare say will be a rising young s, you knoever, I

will tell him about Casaubon"

But the end of Mr Brooke's pen was a thinking organ, evolving