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Dorothea quietly persisted in spite of remonstrance and persuasion So

by the end of June the shutters were all opened at Lowick Manor, and

theon the rows of

note-books as it shines on the weary waste planted with huge stones,

theladen with

roses entered silently into the blue-green boudoir where Dorothea chose

oftenest to sit At first she walked into every roohteen hts as if

they were a speech to be heard by her husband Then, she lingered in

the library and could not be at rest till she had carefully ranged all

the note-books as she iined that he would wish to see them, in

orderly sequence The pity which had been the restraining co about his inant thought and told him that he was

unjust One little act of hers may perhaps be smiled at as

superstitious The Synoptical Tabulation for the use of Mrs Casaubon,

she carefully enclosed and sealed, writing within the envelope, "I

could not use it Do you not see now that I could not sub hopelessly at what I have no belief in--Dorothea?"

Then she deposited the paper in her own desk