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"Do," said Lydgate; "I trust to the effect of that He is very much

beloved, but he has his eneive an able

business is really a blot You don't, of course, see many Middle Mr Brooke, is a

great friend of Mr Farebrother's old ladies, and would be glad to sing

the Vicar's praises One of the old ladies--Miss Noble, the aunt--is a

wonderfully quaint picture of self-forgetful goodness, and Ladislaw

gallants her about sometimes I met them one day in a back street: you

know Ladislaw's look--a sort of Daphnis in coat and waistcoat; and this

little oldup to his arm--they looked like a couple

dropped out of a romantic comedy But the best evidence about

Farebrother is to see hi-room when this conversation

occurred, and there was no one present to ate's innocent

introduction of Ladislaw painful to her As was usual with hiotten Rosaht Will adored Mrs Casaubon At thatfor ould recoiven emphasis to the worst that could be said about the