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Ladislaw had now accepted his bit of work, though it was not that

indeter which he had once dreamed of as alone

worthy of continuous effort His nature warmed easily in the presence

of subjects which were visibly mixed with life and action, and the

easily stirred rebellion in hilow of public spirit In

spite of Mr Casaubon and the banishreat deal of fresh knowledge in a vivid way and for

practical purposes, and(neverwas not

worse than much that reaches the four corners of the earth)

Mr Brooke was occasionally irritating; but Will's impatience was

relieved by the division of his tie and

retreats to his Middleave variety to his life

"Shift the pegs a little," he said to hiht be

in the Cabinet, while I was Under-Secretary That is the coe ones and are of the same

pattern I am better here than in the sort of life Mr Casaubon would

have trainedwould be all laid down by a

precedent too rigid for h pay"

As Lydgate had said of hi the