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In the week-days when she went to see the ladies at the Rectory, she

listened in vain for soht let fall about Will; but

it seemed to her that Mrs Farebrother talked of every one else in the

neighborhood and out of it

"Probably some of Mr Farebrother's Middlemarch hearers may follow him

to Lowick someti herself for having a secretthe question

"If they are wise they will, Mrs Casaubon," said the old lady "I see

that you set a right value on randfather on

yman, but his father was in the law:--most

exemplary and honest nevertheless, which is a reason for our never

being rich They say Fortune is a woives to those who merit, which has been the

case with you, Mrs Casaubon, who have given a living towith a dignified satisfaction

in her neat little effort at oratory, but this was not what Dorothea

wanted to hear Poor thing! she did not even knohether Will

Ladislaas still at Middlemarch, and there was no one whoate But just now she could not see Lydgate