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"If Dorothea had kept near her uncle, there would have been soot some power over him in

time, and she was always uneasy about the estate She had wonderfully

good notions about such things But now Casaubon takes her up

entirely Celia coet her to dine

with us, since he had that fit" Sir Jaust, and Mrs Cadwallader shrugged her shoulders asnew in that direction

"Poor Casaubon!" the Rector said "That was a nasty attack I thought

he looked shattered the other day at the Archdeacon's"

"In point of fact," resu to dwell on "fits,"

"Brooke doesn't ot that way of paring and clipping at expenses"

"Co," said Mrs Cadwallader "That helps hi He may not know his own opinions, but he

does know his own pocket"

"I don't believe a iness on his land," said

Sir Jainess may be abused like other virtues: it will not do to

keep one's own pigs lean," said Mrs Cadwallader, who had risen to look

out of the"But talk of an independent politician and he will

appear"

"What! Brooke?" said her husband