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Dorothea seized this as a precious permission She would not have

asked Mr Casaubon at once to teach her the languages, dreading of all

things to be tiresome instead of helpful; but it was not entirely out

of devotion to her future husband that she wished to know Latin and

Greek Those provinces of round from which all truth could be seen more truly As it

was, she constantly doubted her own conclusions, because she felt her

own ignorance: how could she be confident that one-rooes were

not for the glory of God, when men who knew the classics appeared to

conciliate indifference to the cottages with zeal for the glory?

Perhaps even Hebrew ht be necessary--at least the alphabet and a few

roots--in order to arrive at the core of things, and judge soundly on

the social duties of the Christian And she had not reached that point

of renunciation at which she would have been satisfied with having a

wise husband: she wished, poor child, to be wise herself Miss Brooke

was certainly very naive with all her alleged cleverness Celia, whose

ht too powerful, saw the emptiness of other

people's pretensions , see too much on any