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Invitations of the for, however, for Will had

never been asked to go to Lowick Mr Brooke, indeed, confident of

doing everything agreeable which Casaubon, poor felloas tooLadislaw to Lowick several

ti meanwhile to introduce hi relative of Casaubon's") And though Will had

not seen Dorothea alone, their interviews had been enough to restore

her for companionship with one as cleverer than

herself, yet seemed ready to be swayed by her Poor Dorothea before

her e had never found much room in other minds for what she

cared most to say; and she had not, as we know, enjoyed her husband's

superior instruction so much as she had expected If she spoke with

any keenness of interest to Mr Casaubon, he heard her with an air of

patience as if she had given a quotation from the Delectus familiar to

him from his tender years, and soes had held similar ideas, as if there were too much

of that sort in stock already; at other times he would inform her that