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MihaElla is on page 725 of 992 of Middlemarch
“I must go," he said, with that peculiar look of the eyes which sometimes accompanies bitter feeling, as if they had been tired and burned with gazing too close at a light.

"What shall you do in life?" said Dorothea, timidly. "Have your intentions remained just the same as when we said good-by before?”
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 723 of 992 of Middlemarch
“Pray sit down," said Dorothea, crossing her hands on her lap; "I am very glad you were here." Will thought that her face looked just as it did when she first shook hands with him in Rome; for her widow's cap, fixed in her bonnet, had gone off with it, and he could see that she had lately been shedding tears.
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 705 of 992 of Middlemarch
“The terror of being judged sharpens the memory: it sends an inevitable glare over that long-unvisited past which has been habitually recalled only in general phrases. Even without memory, the life is bound into one by a zone of dependence in growth and decay; but intense memory forces a man to own his blameworthy past.
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 695 of 992 of Middlemarch
“Now, ladies," said Mr. Trumbull, taking up one of the articles, "this tray contains a very recherchy lot—a collection of trifles for the drawing-room table—and trifles make the sum of human things—nothing more important than trifles—(yes, Mr. Ladislaw, yes, by-and-by)—but pass the tray round, Joseph—these bijoux must be examined, ladies.”
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 694 of 992 of Middlemarch
“Gentlemen, here's a fender that if you had the misfortune to hang yourselves would cut you down in no time—with astonishing celerity—four-and-sixpence—five—five-and-sixpence—an appropriate thing for a spare bedroom where there was a four-poster and a guest a little out of his mind—six shillings—thank you, Mr. Clintup—going at six shillings—going—gone!”
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 663 of 992 of Middlemarch
Fred," she said, peeping round to catch his eyes, which were sulkily turned away from her, "you are too delightfully ridiculous. If you were not such a charming simpleton, what a temptation this would be to play the wicked coquette, and let you suppose that somebody besides you has made love to me.

Do you really like me best, Mary?"said Fred, turning eyes full of affection on her, and trying to take her hand.
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 643 of 992 of Middlemarch
“You must be sure of two things: you must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well,
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 642 of 992 of Middlemarch
A young fellow needn't be a B. A. to do this sort of work, eh, Fred?

I wish I had taken to it before I had thought of being a B. A., Do you think I am too old to learn your business,Mr. Garth?

My business is of many sorts, my boy,said Mr. Garth, smiling.A good deal of what I know can only come from experience: you can't learn it off as you learn things out of a book.But you are young enough to lay a foundation yet.
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 642 of 992 of Middlemarch
“Caleb was in a difficulty known to any person attempting in dark times and unassisted by miracle to reason with rustics who are in possession of an undeniable truth which they know through a hard process of feeling, and can let it fall like a giant's club on your neatly carved argument for a social benefit which they do not feel.“
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 627 of 992 of Middlemarch
“Their young delight in speaking to each other, and saying what no one else would care to hear, was forever ended, and become a treasure of the past. For this very reason she dwelt on it without inward check. That unique happiness too was dead, and in its shadowed silent chamber she might vent the passionate grief which she herself wondered at”
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 626 of 992 of Middlemarch
If youth is the season of hope,it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us;for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions,partings,& resolves are the last of their kind.Each crisis seems final,simply because it is new. ...the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes,but they probably see beyond each shock,& reflect that there are plenty more to come
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 624 of 992 of Middlemarch
“You are much the happier of us two, Mr. Ladislaw, to have nothing."

Will was startled. Their eyes met, but with a strange questioning gravity. Something was keeping their minds aloof, and each was left to conjecture what was in the other.

"I never felt it a misfortune to have nothing till now," he said. "But poverty may be as bad as leprosy, if it divides us from what we most care for."
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 618 of 992 of Middlemarch
“The longing was to see Will Ladislaw. She did not know any good that could come of their meeting: she was helpless; her hands had been tied from making up to him for any unfairness in his lot. But her soul thirsted to see him. How could it be otherwise?
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 616 of 992 of Middlemarch
It will be well for her to marry again as soon as it is proper, if one could get her among the right people. ...I see clearly a husband is the best thing to keep her in order.
If we were not so poor I would invite Lord Triton. He will be marquis some day, and there is no denying that she would make a good marchioness: she looks handsomer than ever in her mourning.
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 616 of 992 of Middlemarch
“I never called everything by the same name that all the people about me did," said Dorothea, stoutly.

"But I suppose you have found out your mistake, my dear," said Mrs. Cadwallader, "and that is a proof of sanity."
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 581 of 992 of Middlemarch
“Five years:—if he could only be sure that she cared for him more than for others; if he could only make her aware that he stood aloof until he could tell his love without lowering himself—then he could go away easily, and begin a career which at five-and-twenty seemed probable enough in the inward order of things, where talent brings fame, and fame everything else which is delightful.
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 568 of 992 of Middlemarch
“One of the old ladies—Miss Noble, the aunt—is a wonderfully quaint picture of self-forgetful goodness, and Ladislaw gallants her about sometimes. I met them one day in a back street: you know Ladislaw's look—a sort of Daphnis in coat and waistcoat; and this little old maid reaching up to his arm—they looked like a couple dropped out of a romantic comedy..”
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 563 of 992 of Middlemarch
“Lydgate made her drink a dose of sal volatile.

"Let Mrs. Casaubon do as she likes," he said to Sir James, whom he asked to see before quitting the house. "She wants perfect freedom, I think, more than any other prescription."
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 563 of 992 of Middlemarch
“We should not grieve, should we, baby?" said Celia confidentially to that unconscious centre and poise of the world, who had the most remarkable fists all complete even to the nails, and hair enough, really, when you took his cap off, to make—you didn't know what:—in short, he was Bouddha in a Western form.”
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 543 of 992 of Middlemarch
It was another sort of companionship that she was hungering for,grown from the perpetual effort demanded by her married life.She was always trying to be what her husband wished,& never able to repose on his delight in what she was.The thing that she liked,& spontaneously cared to have, seemed to be always excluded from her life;for if it was only granted & not shared by her husband it might as well have been denied
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 537 of 992 of Middlemarch
“Our good depends on the quality and breadth of our emotion; and to Will, a creature who cared little for what are called the solid things of life and greatly for its subtler influences, to have within him such a feeling as he had towards Dorothea, was like the inheritance of a fortune. What others might have called the futility of his passion, made an additional delight for his imagination:
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 535 of 992 of Middlemarch
“True, he had dreamy visions of possibilities: there is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequence of his passions—does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread.”
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 535 of 992 of Middlemarch
“Was never true love loved in vain,
For truest love is highest gain.
No art can make it: it must spring
Where elements are fostering.
So in heaven's spot and hour
Springs the little native flower,
Downward root and upward eye,
Shapen by the earth and sky.”
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 523 of 992 of Middlemarch
“It is the grandest profession in the world, Rosamond," said Lydgate, gravely. "And to say that you love me without loving the medical man in me, is the same sort of thing as to say that you like eating a peach but don't like its flavor. Don't say that again, dear, it pains me."
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 521 of 992 of Middlemarch
“There was something very fine in Lydgate's look just then, and any one might have been encouraged to bet on his achievement. In his dark eyes and on his mouth and brow there was that placidity which comes from the fulness of contemplative thought—the mind not searching, but beholding, and the glance seeming to be filled with what is behind it.”
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 510 of 992 of Middlemarch
“She knows that I know," said the ever-restless voice within; but that increase of tacit knowledge only thrust further off any confidence between them. He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 506 of 992 of Middlemarch
“I would not creep along the coast but steer
Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.”
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 505 of 992 of Middlemarch
“Haven't you ambition enough to wish that your husband should be something better than a Middlemarch doctor?" said Lydgate, letting his hands fall on to his wife's shoulders, and looking at her with affectionate gravity. "I shall make you learn my favorite bit from an old poet—
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 504 of 992 of Middlemarch
“What is it that you gentlemen are thinking of when you are with Mrs. Casaubon?"

"Herself," said Will, not indisposed to provoke the charming Mrs. Lydgate. "When one sees a perfect woman, one never thinks of her attributes—one is conscious of her presence.”
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MihaElla
MihaElla is on page 504 of 992 of Middlemarch
“prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle—solid as the pyramids, subtle as the twentieth echo of an echo, or as the memory of hyacinths which once scented the darkness.”
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