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"Why has he not done more?" said Dorothea, interested now in all who

had slipped below their own intention

"That's a hard question," said Lydgate "I find ht thing work: there are soat once Farebrother often hints that he has got into

the wrong profession; he wants a wider range than that of a poor

clergyman, and I suppose he has no interest to help him on He is very

fond of Natural History and various scientific matters, and he is

ha these tastes with his position He has no

h to use; and that has led hireat place for whist He does play for

ood deal Of course that takes him into company

a little beneath his; and yet,

with all that, looking at him as a whole, I think he is one of the most

blameless men I ever knew He has neither venoo with a more correct outside"

"I wonder whether he suffers in his conscience because of that habit,"

said Dorothea; "I wonder whether he wishes he could leave it off"

"I have no doubt he would leave it off, if he were transplanted into

plenty: he would be glad of the tis"

"My uncle says that Mr Tyke is spoken of as an apostolicit were possible to restore