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"Well, there is so in that, you know," said Mr Brooke, who had

certainly an i eneral inaccuracy and

indisposition to thoroughness of all kinds, which would be a bad augury

for him in any profession, civil or sacred, even were he so far

submissive to ordinary rule as to choose one"

"Perhaps he has conscientious scruples founded on his own unfitness,"

said Dorothea, as interesting herself in finding a favorable

explanation "Because the law and medicine should be very serious

professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes

depend on the relative Will Ladislaw is chiefly

deters by a dislike to steady

application, and to that kind of acquire or ient taste I have insisted to him on what Aristotle has

stated with adarded as an end there ies or

acquired facilities of a secondary order, de patience I have

pointed to my own manuscript volumes, which represent the toil of years

preparatory to a work not yet acco of this kind he replies by calling hiasus, and every