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Opinionsthis present: soraceful attention to be expected froate, and that the fault of any troublesome consequences lay in

the pinched narrowness of provincial life at that time, which offered

no conveniences for professional people whose fortune was not

proportioned to their tastes; also, in Lydgate's ridiculous

fastidiousness about asking his friends for money

However, it had seemed a question of no moment to him on that fine

ive a final order for plate: in the presence

of other jewels enormously expensive, and as an addition to orders of

which the amount had not been exactly calculated, thirty pounds for

ornaments so exquisitely suited to Rosamond's neck and arms could

hardly appear excessive when there was no ready cash for it to exceed

But at this crisis Lydgate's i on the

possibility of letting the a Mr

Dover's stock, though he shrank fro been roused to discern consequences which he had