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"Queens hereafter lad to live

Upon the alms of her superfluous praise"

But this result was questionable And what else could he do for

Dorothea? What was his devotion worth to her? It was io out of her reach He saw no creature a her

friends to whom he could believe that she spoke with the same simple

confidence as to him She had once said that she would like hions ht hiss

around her

This had always been the conclusion of Will's hesitations But he was

not without contradictoriness and rebellion even towards his own

resolve He had often got irritated, as he was on this particular

night, by some outside demonstration that his public exertions with Mr

Brooke as a chief could not seem as heroic as he would like theround of

irritation--that notwithstanding his sacrifice of dignity for

Dorothea's sake, he could hardly ever see her Whereupon, not being

able to contradict these unpleasant facts, he contradicted his own

strongest bias and said, "I am a fool"

Nevertheless, since the inward debate necessarily turned on Dorothea,

he ended, as he had done before, only by getting a livelier sense of

what her presence would be to hi that the

o to Lowick Church and see

her He slept upon that idea, but when he was dressing in the rational

ht, Objection said--