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1st Gent Such ht, no force

2d Gent But levity

Is causal too, and ht

For power finds its place in lack of power;

Advance is cession, and the driven ship

May run aground because the helht

Lacked force to balance opposites"

It was on aof May that Peter Featherstone was buried In the

prosaic neighborhood of Middlemarch, May was not alar a chill as blowing the blossoreenclouds only now and then allowed a glealy or beautiful, that happened to stand

within its golden shower In the churchyard the objects were

re to see

the funeral The news had spread that it was to be a "big burying;"

the old gentle and

meant to have a funeral "beyond his betters" This was true; for old

Featherstone had not been a Harpagon whose passions had all been

devoured by the ever-lean and ever-hungry passion of saving, and who