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Lydgate, relieved from anxiety about her, relapsed into what she

inwardly called his htful preoccupation with other subjects than herself, as well as

that uneasy look of the brow and distaste for all ordinary things as if

they were mixed with bitter herbs, which reallyThese latter states of

enerously but

to Rosamond, lest it should affect her

health and spirits Between hi of each other's mental track, which is too evidently possible

even between persons who are continually thinking of each other To

Lydgate it seemore than half of his best intent and best power to his

tenderness for Rosa her little claims and interruptions

without i without betrayal of

bitterness to look through less and less of interfering illusion at the

blank unreflecting surface her mind presented to his ardor for the more

impersonal ends of his profession and his scientific study, an ardor

which he had fancied that the ideal wife h not in the least knohy But his endurance was