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"Are you ill, Edward?" she said, rising i posture I will sit here for a

time" She threood on the fire, wrapped herself up, and said, "You

would likeso, Dorothea," said Mr Casaubon,

with a shade more meekness than usual in his polite manner "I am

wakeful: my mind is rereat for you," said Dorothea,

reate's cautions

"No, I aht is easy"

Dorothea dared not insist, and she read for an hour or etting over the pages with

more quickness Mr Casaubon's mind wasafter a very slight verbal indication,

saying, "That will do--mark that"--or "Pass on to the next head--I omit

the second excursus on Crete" Dorothea was amazed to think of the

bird-like speed hich hisfor years At last he said--

"Close the book now, my dear We will resu, and would gladly see it completed But you

observe that the principle on which ive

adequate, and not disproportionate illustration to each of the theses

enumerated in my introduction, as at present sketched You have