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1,377 | 145_book_3,_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate comes to check on Casaubon, and cannot find anything immediately wrong; he asks that Casaubon give up his studies for the time being, and focus on leisurely pursuits. Dorothea is informed as to the details of whatever ails Casaubon; Lydgate says that he must be kept from any stresses, or else his condition migh... | [
"\"Qui veut delasser hors de propos, lasse.\"--PASCAL.",
"Mr. Casaubon had no second attack of equal severity with the first, and\nin a few days began to recover his usual condition. But Lydgate seemed\nto think the case worth a great deal of attention. He not only used\nhis stethoscope (which had not become a ... |
1,378 | 145_book_3,_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate and Rosamond become closer, as Lydgate is about to be sucked into a relationship which he is unprepared for because of the nature of Middlemarch society. Mrs. Bulstrode and Mrs. Plymdale gossip about Rosamond's pride, and how Lydgate might suit her; Mrs. Plymdale thinks that the match would be unwise for Lydgat... | [
"How will you know the pitch of that great bell\n Too large for you to stir? Let but a flute\n Play 'neath the fine-mixed metal listen close\n Till the right note flows forth, a silvery rill.\n Then shall the huge bell tremble--then the mass\n With myriad waves concurrent shall respond\n In low s... |
1,379 | 145_book_3,_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Featherstone's relatives begin to pop out and appear, and all expect that he will die soon, and will leave them some bit of money, since he is their rich relation. They all expect that he should do something for them, that he owes them money because they are relatives; they do not consider that they have done nothi... | [
"\"They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk.\"\n --SHAKESPEARE: Tempest.",
"The triumphant confidence of the Mayor founded on Mr. Featherstone's insistent demand that Fred and his mother should not leave him, was a feeble emotion compared with all that was agitating the breasts of... |
1,380 | 145_book_3,_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mary Garth is sitting with Mr. Featherstone at night, as she usually does, reflecting on the events of the day, and sitting in silence, for the most part. She figures that the issue of Featherstone's will shall disappoint everyone involved. Mr. Featherstone suddenly tells her to open the chest with his will in it, and ... | [
"\"Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close;\n And let us all to meditation.\"\n --2 Henry VI.",
"That night after twelve o'clock Mary Garth relieved the watch in Mr. Featherstone's room, and sat there alone through the small hours. She\noften chose this task, in which she fou... |
1,381 | 145_book_5,_chapter_43 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea decides to seek out Lydgate, and ask him if there has been a serious change in her husband's condition, or else why he has been so troubled since Lydgate's visit. She goes to his house, and finds Rosamond there; but Will is also there, which makes Dorothea panic, and she immediately leaves to find Lydgate at h... | [
"This figure hath high price: 't was wrought with love\n Ages ago in finest ivory;\n Nought modish in it, pure and noble lines\n Of generous womanhood that fits all time\n That too is costly ware; majolica\n Of deft design, to please a lordly eye:\n The smile, you see, is perfect--wonderful\n A... |
1,382 | 145_book_5,_chapter_44 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea finally talks to Lydgate, and Lydgate tells her that Casaubon now knows about his condition, and he is probably upset by it. Lydgate turns her attention to the new hospital; Bulstrode has been one of the few supporting it, and so many are against the hospital because they do not like Bulstrode. Dorothea says t... | [
"I would not creep along the coast but steer\n Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.",
"When Dorothea, walking round the laurel-planted plots of the New\nHospital with Lydgate, had learned from him that there were no signs of\nchange in Mr. Casaubon's bodily condition beyond the mental sign of\nanxiety to ... |
1,383 | 145_book_6,_chapter_54 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea is tired of staying at her sister's, having nothing to do but stare at Celia's baby, whom Celia worships, but Dorothea couldn't be more indifferent to. She longs to get back to Lowick and set things in order; her sister and Sir James do not believe she should go, but she is determined to, because she can stand... | [
"\"Negli occhi porta la mia donna Amore;\n Per che si fa gentil eio ch'ella mira:\n Ov'ella passa, ogni uom ver lei si gira,\n E cui saluta fa tremar lo core.",
"Sicche, bassando il viso, tutto smore,\n E d'ogni suo difetto allor sospira:\n Fuggon dinanzi a lei Superbia ed ... |
1,384 | 145_book_6,_chapter_55 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea seems more grieved at Will's departure than she was at her husband's deathand rightly so, for she loved Will more than she ever loved her husband. She goes to Celia, where the company brings up the subject of marriage; it is openly suggested that Dorothea marry again, though that is the last thing Dorothea wis... | [
"Hath she her faults? I would you had them too.\n They are the fruity must of soundest wine;\n Or say, they are regenerating fire\n Such as hath turned the dense black element\n Into a crystal pathway for the sun.",
"If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that\nour elders ar... |
1,385 | 145_book_7,_chapter_63 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Farebrother notices some talk of Lydgate's practice declining, how his expenses much be more than he can really afford, and how he shouldn't have married a girl of such fine tastes. Farebrother really makes nothing of this talk, until he sees Lydgate again, and notices how nervous and strange his friend is acting. All ... | [
"These little things are great to little man.--GOLDSMITH.",
"\"Have you seen much of your scientific phoenix, Lydgate, lately?\" said\nMr. Toller at one of his Christmas dinner-parties, speaking to Mr.\nFarebrother on his right hand.",
"\"Not much, I am sorry to say,\" answered the Vicar, accustomed to parry\nM... |
1,386 | 145_book_7,_chapter_64 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate's money situation is certainly not getting any better, and Rosamond is very sour and inconsiderate whenever he mentions cutting down household expenses. He begins to resent the fact that she will not learn that they only have a limited amount of money, and cannot spend any more; she pouts like a sullen child, a... | [
"1st Gent. Where lies the power, there let the blame lie too.\n 2d Gent. Nay, power is relative; you cannot fright\n The coming pest with border fortresses,\n Or catch your carp with subtle argument.\n All force is twain in one: cause is not cause\n ... |
1,387 | 145_book_7,_chapter_65 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate finds out, from a letter written by his uncle Godwin, that Rosamond wrote him for money behind his back. Lydgate is enraged that Rosamond would do such a thing, and also because he was about to go to see his uncle, and may have gotten some money, rather than a complete denial. However, when Lydgate gets angry a... | [
"\"One of us two must bowen douteless,\n And, sith a man is more reasonable\n Than woman is, ye [men] moste be suffrable.\n --CHAUCER: Canterbury Tales.",
"The bias of human nature to be slow in correspondence triumphs even\nover the present quickening in the general pace of th... |
1,388 | 145_book_7,_chapter_66 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate, out of desperation for money and foolish hope that some will come to him, begins to gamble. Usually this is something which he treats with contempt, but in the situation he is in, he decides to go to the Green Dragon and play billiards. He is very good at first, winning a good bit of money; Fred Vincy and a fr... | [
"\"'Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,\n Another thing to fall.\"\n --Measure for Measure.",
"Lydgate certainly had good reason to reflect on the service his\npractice did him in counteracting his personal cares. He had no longer\nfree energy enough for spontaneous research and s... |
1,389 | 145_book_8,_chapter_72 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea is set on proving Lydgate innocent, though this may prove difficult. Farebrother would certainly like to help, but he knows from the alteration and desperation in Lydgate's character of late, that is it completely likely that Lydgate did take the bribe, to save himself. Farebrother does not blame Lydgate, but ... | [
"Full souls are double mirrors, making still\n An endless vista of fair things before,\n Repeating things behind.",
"Dorothea's impetuous generosity, which would have leaped at once to the\nvindication of Lydgate from the suspicion of having accepted money as a\nbribe, underwent a melancholy check when she ... |
1,390 | 145_book_8,_chapter_73 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate is now faced with the heavy task of exonerating himself, for he stands accused among everyone in Middlemarch. He wants to be able to stand up and say that he did not take a bribe from Bulstrode, and had no complicity in Raffles' death. However, his conscience troubles him, since he wonders if he would have acte... | [
"Pity the laden one; this wandering woe\n May visit you and me.",
"When Lydgate had allayed Mrs. Bulstrode's anxiety by telling her that\nher husband had been seized with faintness at the meeting, but that he\ntrusted soon to see him better and would call again the next day,\nunless she sent for him earlier, h... |
1,391 | 145_book_8,_chapter_74 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Now that Bulstrode and Lydgate have already been judged and condemned, it is the time for the wives of Middlemarch to assess and judge how Mrs. Bulstrode and Rosamond might be to blame as well. Mrs. Bulstrode is acquitted of her husband's wrongdoing, because she is a good person, and all wrongs were done before they we... | [
"\"Mercifully grant that we may grow aged together.\"\n --BOOK OF TOBIT: Marriage Prayer.",
"In Middlemarch a wife could not long remain ignorant that the town held\na bad opinion of her husband. No feminine intimate might carry her\nfriendship so far as to make a plain statement to th... |
1,392 | 145_book_8,_chapter_75 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It seems that Rosamond refuses to learn any lessons from her situation; to appease her vanity, she starts to think of Will Ladislaw, and imagines that he must love her instead of Dorothea, because she is so beautiful and charming. She continues to blame her husband for her unhappiness, not her rabid materialism; everyt... | [
"\"Le sentiment de la faussete des plaisirs presents, et\n l'ignorance de la vanite des plaisirs absents causent\n l'inconstance.\"--PASCAL.",
"Rosamond had a gleam of returning cheerfulness when the house was freed\nfrom the threatening figure, and when all the disagreeable creditors\nwere paid. But she wa... |
1,393 | 145_book_8,_chapter_76 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea wrote a letter to Lydgate, bidding him to come and visit her. Against Mr. Brooke and Sir James' advice, she has decided to try and clear Lydgate, if she can, and also to continue and support the hospital as well. Lydgate begins to tell her the whole truththey are good friends, and often feel that they can conf... | [
"\"To mercy, pity, peace, and love\n All pray in their distress,\n And to these virtues of delight,\n Return their thankfulness.\n . . . . . .\n For Mercy has a human heart,\n Pity a human face;\n And Love, the human form divine;\n And Peace, the human... |
1,394 | 145_book_8,_chapter_77 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rosamond has written a letter to Will, trying to make his visit come more quickly; she is still very unhappy with everything, and Lydgate has tried to avoid her, lest he upset her in some way. Dorothea has been thinking about Will a lot lately, as well; she still cannot help but think that he might be in love with her,... | [
"\"And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot,\n To mark the full-fraught man and best indued\n With some suspicion.\"\n --Henry V.",
"The next day Lydgate had to go to Brassing, and told Rosamond that he\nshould be away until the evening. Of late she had never gone... |
1,395 | 145_book_8,_chapter_78 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Will and Rosamond are shocked at being found, and in a way that would look bad to Dorothea. Will realizes suddenly what Rosamond was trying to do; Rosamond wanted it to look like Will loved her, and kept him around in order to create this impression. He blows up at her, especially when she tries her methods that usuall... | [
"\"Would it were yesterday and I i' the grave,\n With her sweet faith above for monument\"",
"Rosamond and Will stood motionless--they did not know how long--he\nlooking towards the spot where Dorothea had stood, and she looking\ntowards him with doubt. It seemed an endless time to Rosamond, in\nwhose inmost... |
1,396 | 145_book_8,_chapter_79 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate puts Rosamond to bed, still not totally aware of what has caused her distress. Will comes over, but Rosamond has not mentioned Will's visit earlier in the day; Will makes no mention of it to Lydgate either. Lydgate tells Will a bit of what has been going on, and that his name has also been mixed up in the proce... | [
"\"Now, I saw in my dream, that just as they had ended their\n talk, they drew nigh to a very miry slough, that was in the\n midst of the plain; and they, being heedless, did both fall\n suddenly into the bog. The name of the slough was\n Despond.\"--BUNYAN.",
"When Rosamond was quiet, and Lydgate had... |
1,397 | 145_book_8,_chapter_80 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea goes over to the Farebrothers' house, which she does very often; her visits keep her from being lonely, and also keep her from criticisms that she needs a companion. But, when Will comes up, she suddenly feels that she must leave; that evening, she finally realizes that she loved Will, although she fears that ... | [
"\"Stern lawgiver! yet thou dost wear\n The Godhead's most benignant grace;\n Nor know we anything so fair\n As is the smile upon thy face;\n Flowers laugh before thee on their beds,\n And fragrance in thy footing treads;\n Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong;\n And ... |
1,398 | 145_book_8,_chapter_81 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea finds Lydgate at home, and Lydgate thanks her for giving him the money with which to pay his debt to Bulstrode. Dorothea is only too happy to have been of service; she asks him in Rosamond is in, and finds Lydgate completely unaware of what went on the previous day. Rosamond is wary at the visit, but receives ... | [
"\"Du Erde warst auch diese Nacht bestandig,\n Und athmest neu erquickt zu meinen Fussen,\n Beginnest schon mit Lust mich zu umgeben,\n Zum regst und ruhrst ein kraftiges Reschliessen\n Zum hochsten Dasein immerfort zu streben.\n --Faust: 2r Theil.",
"When Dorothe... |
1,399 | 145_book_8,_chapter_82 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Will debates with himself whether he should leave Middlemarch altogether after the events of the previous day; in the end, he decides he cannot leave after making some amends to Rosamond after her shock. He is sorry that he got so angry at her, but at the same time, does not want to come straight out and apologizeespec... | [
"\"My grief lies onward and my joy behind.\"\n --SHAKESPEARE: Sonnets.",
"Exiles notoriously feed much on hopes, and are unlikely to stay in\nbanishment unless they are obliged. When Will Ladislaw exiled himself\nfrom Middlemarch he had placed no stronger obstacle to his return t... |
1,400 | 145_book_8,_chapter_83 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea is too agitated to set herself at any one task; she tries to memorize places on a map, before Miss Noble comes in, to greet her. Miss Noble tells her that Will is there, waiting outside, to greet her; Dorothea decides that she cannot turn him away, and has him sent into her. Dorothea is a little formal in her ... | [
"\"And now good-morrow to our waking souls\n Which watch not one another out of fear;\n For love all love of other sights controls,\n And makes one little room, an everywhere.\"\n --DR. DONNE.",
"On the second morning after Dorothea's visit to Rosamond, she had ha... |
1,401 | 145_book_8,_chapter_84 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Brooke, Sir James, Celia, and the Cadwalladers are all assembled at Sir James' home. Mr. Brooke has news to tell them of Dorothea and Will, and their impending marriage. Sir James is very angry, and objects strongly; he wants to try and protect Dorothea as he should have protected her from her marriage with Casaubo... | [
"\"Though it be songe of old and yonge,\n That I sholde be to blame,\n Theyrs be the charge, that spoke so large\n In hurtynge of my name.\"\n --The Not-Browne Mayde.",
"It was just after the Lords had thrown out the Reform Bill: that\nexplains how Mr. Cadwallader cam... |
1,402 | 145_book_8,_chapter_85 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Bulstrode is getting ready to leave Middlemarch, since he cannot bear the scorn and shame of being there any longer. His wife has been constant, but at the same time, she has been worn down by grief and remorse in the past few months. She would like to do something nice for her family before she goes away; they decide ... | [
"\"Then went the jury out whose names were Mr. Blindman, Mr. No-good, Mr. Malice, Mr. Love-lust, Mr. Live-loose, Mr. Heady, Mr. High-mind, Mr. Enmity, Mr. Liar, Mr. Cruelty, Mr. Hate-light, Mr. Implacable, who every one gave in his private verdict against him among themselves, and afterwards unanimously concluded t... |
1,403 | 145_book_8,_chapter_86 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Caleb Garth tells Mary that the Bulstrodes want Fred to manage Stone court; Mary is very happy, though Mr. Garth is still not sure if Fred will make her a good husband. He questions his daughter, about her love for Fred, and whether she truly thinks she can spend her life with him; she does not want to see his daughter... | [
"\"Le coeur se sature d'amour comme d'un sel divin qui le\n conserve; de la l'incorruptible adherence de ceux qui se\n sont aimes des l'aube de la vie, et la fraicheur des vielles\n amours prolonges. Il existe un embaumement d'amour. C'est de\n Daphnis et Chloe que sont faits Philemon et Baucis. Cette\n... |
1,348 | 145_book_1,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The opening description of "Miss Brooke" harps on how she's so beautiful that she doesn't need to wear fancy clothes. In fact, she wears very plain clothes, despite her good birth - her family is solidly part of the lower upper class. Women of the middle class, the narrator tells us, try to show off by wearing fancy, e... | [
"\"Since I can do no good because a woman,\n Reach constantly at something that is near it.\n --The Maid's Tragedy: BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.",
"Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into\nrelief by poor dress. Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that\nshe could wear sleeves... |
1,349 | 145_book_1,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens with Dorothea, Celia, their uncle , Sir James Chettam, and Mr. Casaubon all sitting down to dinner together. Mr. Brooke keeps going on about the different books he read as a young man, and the different writers and poets he met. He can't seem to form a coherent thought, and rambles a lot. Sir James Ch... | [
"\"'Dime; no ves aquel caballero que hacia nosotros viene\n sobre un caballo rucio rodado que trae puesto en la cabeza\n un yelmo de oro?' 'Lo que veo y columbro,' respondio Sancho,\n 'no es sino un hombre sobre un as no pardo como el mio, que\n trae sobre la cabeza una cosa que relumbra.' 'Pues ese es ... |
1,350 | 145_book_1,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | By the next day, Dorothea's already decided that Mr. Casaubon's the man for her, moles and all. She feels that she'll be able to learn from him. Dorothea has a sense that there's a whole world of knowledge out there that she hasn't been able to access, and she thinks that Mr. Casaubon will give her the key to the world... | [
"\"Say, goddess, what ensued, when Raphael,\n The affable archangel . . .\n Eve\n The story heard attentive, and was filled\n With admiration, and deep muse, to hear\n Of things so high and strange.\"\n --Paradise Lost, B. vii."... |
1,351 | 145_book_1,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Celia finally sets Dorothea straight: Sir James is intending to propose to "the eldest Miss Brooke." Dorothea is very irritated by the news - she'll have to give up discussing her cottage plans with him. Mr. Brooke comes home and asks to speak with Dorothea in his library. He says that he'd had lunch with Mr. Casaubon ... | [
"1st Gent. Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.\n 2d Gent. Ay, truly: but I think it is the world\n That brings the iron.",
"\"Sir James seems determined to do everything you wish,\" said Celia, as\nthey were driving home from an inspection of the new building-site.",
"\"He is a go... |
1,352 | 145_book_1,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens with Mr. Casaubon's letter to Dorothea, proposing marriage. It sounds very formal and official. No compliments, no flattery, and nothing lovey-dovey. Dorothea likes it, though, and she's ecstatic at the idea of being able to love and serve someone who needs her help . A whole new world of knowledge se... | [
"\"Hard students are commonly troubled with gowts, catarrhs,\n rheums, cachexia, bradypepsia, bad eyes, stone, and collick,\n crudities, oppilations, vertigo, winds, consumptions, and\n all such diseases as come by over-much sitting: they are\n most part lean, dry, ill-colored . . . and all through\n ... |
1,353 | 145_book_1,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On his way out the gate of Mr. Brooke's estate in his carriage, Mr. Casaubon passes another lady in a smaller carriage on her way in. The lady isn't dressed very well, but she's clearly important socially - the lodge-keeper's wife curtseys to her as she opens the gate. It's Mrs. Cadwallader, the wife of the vicar. They... | [
"My lady's tongue is like the meadow blades,\n That cut you stroking them with idle hand.\n Nice cutting is her function: she divides\n With spiritual edge the millet-seed,\n And makes intangible savings.",
"As Mr. Casaubon's carriage was passing out of the gateway, it arrested\nthe entrance of a pony... |
1,354 | 145_book_1,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Casaubon spends a lot of time at Tipton Grange during the period leading up to their marriage. He doesn't enjoy it, though - it's time taken away from his scholarly work. Dorothea, meanwhile, is eager to prepare herself for her duties as Mrs. Casaubon. She asks him whether she should start learning Greek or Latin, ... | [
"\"Piacer e popone\n Vuol la sua stagione.\"\n --Italian Proverb.",
"Mr. Casaubon, as might be expected, spent a great deal of his time at\nthe Grange in these weeks, and the hindrance which courtship occasioned\nto the progress of his great work--the Key to all\nMythologies--naturally made him loo... |
1,355 | 145_book_1,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sir James gets over his bitterness pretty quickly, and soon learns to look at Dorothea with pity, rather than with anger. He knows that Mr. Brooke won't do anything to stop Dorothea from marrying Mr. Casaubon, so he goes to Mr. Cadwallader, the vicar, to ask him to step in and say something. Mr. Cadwallader is too easy... | [
"\"Oh, rescue her! I am her brother now,\n And you her father. Every gentle maid\n Should have a guardian in each gentleman.\"",
"It was wonderful to Sir James Chettam how well he continued to like\ngoing to the Grange after he had once encountered the difficulty of\nseeing Dorothea for the first time i... |
1,356 | 145_book_1,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On a gray day in November, Dorothea goes to visit Lowick, Mr. Casaubon's manor and her own future home. Celia thinks the house looks dreary, but Dorothea thinks it looks holy, somehow. Even though Mr. Casaubon is too formal to be exactly romantic, Dorothea's faith in him makes her overlook his stiffness. He asks her wh... | [
"1st Gent. An ancient land in ancient oracles\n Is called \"law-thirsty\": all the struggle there\n Was after order and a perfect rule.\n Pray, where lie such lands now? . . .\n 2d Gent. Why, where they lay of old--in human souls.",
"Mr. Casaubon's behavior abou... |
1,357 | 145_book_1,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Will Ladislaw leaves for Europe, and Mr. Casaubon and Dorothea complete their plans for the wedding and honeymoon. They're planning to honeymoon in Italy, but it's going to be a working trip for Mr. Casaubon - he'll spend most of his time in libraries and museums, studying. He says that he wishes Celia could come along... | [
"\"He had catched a great cold, had he had no other clothes\n to wear than the skin of a bear not yet killed.\"--FULLER.",
"Young Ladislaw did not pay that visit to which Mr. Brooke had invited\nhim, and only six days afterwards Mr. Casaubon mentioned that his young\nrelative had started for the Continent, se... |
1,358 | 145_book_1,_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens with some background info on Mr. Lydgate. He's already half in love with Miss Vincy, but he's too young, poor, and ambitious to want to get married right away. The narrator hints that Mr. Lydgate's fate will, at some point, be involved with Dorothea's, but she doesn't say how. The narrator goes on to ... | [
"\"But deeds and language such as men do use,\n And persons such as comedy would choose,\n When she would show an image of the times,\n And sport with human follies, not with crimes.\"\n --BEN JONSON.",
"Lydgate, in fact, was already conscious of being fascinated ... |
1,359 | 145_book_1,_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fred and Rosamond ride over to Stone Court, as planned. Mr. Featherstone is bossing Mary Garth around before they get there, and being rude to his sister, Mrs. Waule. Mrs. Waule is telling him that Fred Vincy has been borrowing money from people in town, using his expectations of an inheritance from Mr. Featherstone as... | [
"\"He had more tow on his distaffe\n Than Gerveis knew.\"\n --CHAUCER.",
"The ride to Stone Court, which Fred and Rosamond took the next morning,\nlay through a pretty bit of midland landscape, almost all meadows and\npastures, with hedgerows still allowed to grow in bushy beauty and... |
1,360 | 145_book_2,_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens with Mr. Vincy going to see Mr. Bulstrode to ask him to write that letter for Fred. The narrator describes Mr. Bulstrode as a sickly, pale man, whose soft voice had something untrustworthy in it, somehow. Mr. Bulstrode is just finishing up with another visitor when Mr. Vincy arrives. It's Mr. Lydgate,... | [
"1st Gent. How class your man?--as better than the most,\n Or, seeming better, worse beneath that cloak?\n As saint or knave, pilgrim or hypocrite?\n 2d Gent. Nay, tell me how you class your wealth of books\n The drifted relics of all time.\n As we... |
1,361 | 145_book_2,_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens with Mr. Featherstone reading the letter from Mr. Bulstrode while Fred waits. When he's done reading it, he gives Fred some money - but not as much as Fred was hoping. Once he's finished his visit with his uncle, Fred goes to find Mary downstairs. They talk about Fred's lack of professional plans, now... | [
"\"Follows here the strict receipt\n For that sauce to dainty meat,\n Named Idleness, which many eat\n By preference, and call it sweet:\n First watch for morsels, like a hound\n Mix well with buffets, stir them round\n With good thick oil of flatteries,\n And froth with mean self-laudin... |
1,362 | 145_book_2,_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter gives some background info on Mr. Lydgate. Even though no one in Middlemarch believes that he's really a better doctor than Dr. Sprague and Dr. Minchin, the two physicians, they can see that there's something uncommon about him. He was orphaned when he was just out of high school, and had been studying medi... | [
"\"Black eyes you have left, you say,\n Blue eyes fail to draw you;\n Yet you seem more rapt to-day,\n Than of old we saw you.",
"\"Oh, I track the fairest fair\n Through new haunts of pleasure;\n Footprints here and echoes there\n Guide me to my treasure:",
"\"Lo! she turns--immortal yo... |
1,363 | 145_book_2,_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate and various other Middlemarchers are having dinner at the Vincys' house. The subject of who would be the chaplain of the new fever hospital comes up at dinner. The matter will be decided by a vote from the board of directors, and Lydgate remarks that stuff like that is too often decided by popularity, instead o... | [
"\"All that in woman is adored\n In thy fair self I find--\n For the whole sex can but afford\n The handsome and the kind.\"\n --SIR CHARLES SEDLEY.",
"The question whether Mr. Tyke should be appointed as salaried chaplain\nto the hospital was an exciting topic to the Middle... |
1,364 | 145_book_2,_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens with a description of Mr. Farebrother's vicarage . Lydgate arrives to pay Mr. Farebrother a visit. Farebrother lives with his mother and his mother's unmarried sister. His mother is opinionated and talkative, and her sister, Miss Noble, is a timid woman who loves stashing her sugar into a basket to gi... | [
"\"The clerkly person smiled and said\n Promise was a pretty maid,\n But being poor she died unwed.\"",
"The Rev. Camden Farebrother, whom Lydgate went to see the next evening,\nlived in an old parsonage, built of stone, venerable enough to match\nthe church which it looked out upon. All the furniture too... |
1,365 | 145_book_2,_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate wouldn't have cared much about the chaplain position at the new hospital if he hadn't gotten to be such good friends with Farebrother. One thing that continues to bother him about his new friend, though, is Farebrother's habit of playing cards or billiards for money. Lydgate has never wanted for money , and alt... | [
"\"Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth\n Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts,\n Breathing bad air, ran risk of pestilence;\n Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line,\n May languish with the scurvy.\"",
"Some weeks passed after this conversation before the question of the\nchaplain... |
1,366 | 145_book_2,_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter opens with a change of scene - we're now in Rome, Italy, where Dorothea and Mr. Casaubon are honeymooning. Will Ladislaw is there, too , to study art and travel. Will's friend, Naumann, sees Dorothea across a gallery in a museum, and thinks she's as lovely as the statues she's looking at. Will sees who it ... | [
"\"L' altra vedete ch'ha fatto alla guancia\n Della sua palma, sospirando, letto.\"\n --Purgatorio, vii.",
"When George the Fourth was still reigning over the privacies of\nWindsor, when the Duke of Wellington was Prime Minister, and Mr. Vincy\nwas mayor of the old corporation in ... |
1,367 | 145_book_2,_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea is crying alone in her hotel. Mr. Casaubon is working at the Vatican library and not likely to return for a while, so she has time for a good cry. She's not happy , and can't explain the reason to herself. Rome is too big, and the contrast between its glorious past and its poor present is jarring for her. Rome... | [
"\"A child forsaken, waking suddenly,\n Whose gaze afeard on all things round doth rove,\n And seeth only that it cannot see\n The meeting eyes of love.\"",
"Two hours later, Dorothea was seated in an inner room or boudoir of a\nhandsome apartment in the Via Sistina.",
"I am sorry to add that she wa... |
1,368 | 145_book_2,_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea has hardly finished her cry when Will Ladislaw shows up for a visit. She dries her eyes and goes down to meet him. Will is shy at first, but she quickly puts him at ease, and they begin to talk about art. Will reminds her of her "criticism" of his sketches when they first met in Casaubon's garden, and she repe... | [
"\"Hire facounde eke full womanly and plain,\n No contrefeted termes had she\n To semen wise.\"\n --CHAUCER.",
"It was in that way Dorothea came to be sobbing as soon as she was\nsecurely alone. But she was presently roused by a knock at the door,\nwhich made her hastily dry her ey... |
1,369 | 145_book_2,_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Will is at dinner with Mr. Casaubon and Dorothea, and is making himself charming to everyone because he's in a good mood. Mr. Casaubon mentions that they'll be leaving Rome in a few days, so Will encourages him to take Dorothea to visit a few artists' studios. Dorothea wants to go, so Mr. Casaubon agrees, and Will prom... | [
"\"Nous causames longtemps; elle etait simple et bonne.\n Ne sachant pas le mal, elle faisait le bien;\n Des richesses du coeur elle me fit l'aumone,\n Et tout en ecoutant comme le coeur se donne,\n Sans oser y penser je lui donnai le mien;\n Elle emporta ma vie, et n'en sut jamais rien.\"\n ... |
1,370 | 145_book_3,_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fred's debt, as you will no doubt remember from an earlier chapter, was for 160 pounds , and Caleb Garth had been a co-signer for it. Fred had gotten Mr. Garth to agree to sign it by assuring him that he'd pay it back promptly. Of course, if he doesn't pay it promptly, it'll be on Mr. Garth to pay it, and the Garths ca... | [
"\"Your horses of the Sun,\" he said,\n \"And first-rate whip Apollo!\n Whate'er they be, I'll eat my head,\n But I will beat them hollow.\"",
"Fred Vincy, we have seen, had a debt on his mind, and though no such\nimmaterial burthen could depress that buoyant-hearted young gentleman\nfor many hours tog... |
1,371 | 145_book_3,_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Unfortunately, the horse Fred buys turns out to have temper problems, and it gives itself a bum leg by kicking at the groom and catching its foot in a rope. So now the horse is worthless, and Fred only has fifty pounds towards repaying the debt. He decides that the only thing he can do is to go and confess everything t... | [
"\"The offender's sorrow brings but small relief\n To him who wears the strong offence's cross.\"\n --SHAKESPEARE: Sonnets.",
"I am sorry to say that only the third day after the propitious events\nat Houndsley Fred Vincy had fallen into worse spirits than he had known\n... |
1,372 | 145_book_3,_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fred goes to Stone Court to break the news to Mary. He tells her bluntly what he's done, and what it'll mean for her family. She thinks immediately of her parents, and the sacrifice this will mean for them. He apologizes again and again, and she doesn't bother to lecture him - what good would it do? He promises to do a... | [
"\"Love seeketh not itself to please,\n Nor for itself hath any care\n But for another gives its ease\n And builds a heaven in hell's despair.\n . . . . . . .\n Love seeketh only self to please,\n To bind another to its delight,\n Joys in another's loss of ea... |
1,373 | 145_book_3,_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fred doesn't get to visit Mary again the next day because he develops a nasty fever overnight. His mother calls their usual surgeon, Mr. Wrench, who prescribes the wrong thing and then doesn't come back to check in on him. So Rosamond recommends that they call Mr. Lydgate , who immediately sees that it's typhoid fever ... | [
"\"He beats me and I rail at him: O worthy satisfaction!\n would it were otherwise--that I could beat him while\n he railed at me.--\"\n --Troilus and Cressida.",
"But Fred did not go to Stone Court the next day, for reasons that were\nquite peremptory. From those visits ... |
1,374 | 145_book_3,_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Because of Fred's illness, Lydgate spends a lot of time at the Vincys' house, and necessarily spends most of that time with Rosamond. Mrs. Vincy is a mess - Fred was always her favorite child. But under Lydgate's care, Fred mends quickly. He continues to check on him twice a day, though, and spends evenings listening t... | [
"Let the high Muse chant loves Olympian:\n We are but mortals, and must sing of man.",
"An eminent philosopher among my friends, who can dignify even your ugly\nfurniture by lifting it into the serene light of science, has shown me\nthis pregnant little fact. Your pier-glass or extensive surface of\npolished s... |
1,375 | 145_book_3,_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens with Dorothea in her little room at Lowick - they're back from their honeymoon . She looks at the portrait of Will's grandmother, and is reminded of him. Celia and Mr. Brooke come to visit, and Dorothea goes down to see them. Celia tells her that she's now engaged to Sir James Chettam, and Dorothea is... | [
"1st Gent. All times are good to seek your wedded home\n Bringing a mutual delight.",
"2d Gent. Why, true.\n The calendar hath not an evil day\n For souls made one by love, and even death\n Were sweetness, if it came... |
1,376 | 145_book_3,_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens with a reminder by the narrator that Mr. Casaubon has his own inner life - his own plans and hopes and insecurities - that Dorothea knows nothing about. Mr. Casaubon opens a letter from Will Ladislaw, and finds an enclosed note to Dorothea. He hands her the sealed note, and isn't very happy about it. ... | [
"\"I found that no genius in another could please me. My\n unfortunate paradoxes had entirely dried up that source of\n comfort.\"--GOLDSMITH.",
"One morning, some weeks after her arrival at Lowick, Dorothea--but why\nalways Dorothea? Was her point of view the only possible one with\nregard to this marriag... |
1,377 | 145_book_3,_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Casaubon doesn't have a second attack, so everyone thinks he's on the mend. Lydgate knows better, though, and warns Casaubon to take it easy - relax, no hard studying, etc. Casaubon's not happy about this. He's too serious to play cards or anything in the evening, and he'd rather read Greek manuscripts than a novel... | [
"\"Qui veut delasser hors de propos, lasse.\"--PASCAL.",
"Mr. Casaubon had no second attack of equal severity with the first, and\nin a few days began to recover his usual condition. But Lydgate seemed\nto think the case worth a great deal of attention. He not only used\nhis stethoscope (which had not become a ... |
1,378 | 145_book_3,_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate tells Rosamond about Dorothea's odd devotion to her old husband. Meanwhile, though, gossip about Lydgate and Rosamond has been spreading around Middlemarch. Mrs. Plymdale is exasperated with Rosamond for the sake of her own rejected son. So Mrs. Plymdale tells her friend, Harriet Bulstrode that Rosamond and Lyd... | [
"How will you know the pitch of that great bell\n Too large for you to stir? Let but a flute\n Play 'neath the fine-mixed metal listen close\n Till the right note flows forth, a silvery rill.\n Then shall the huge bell tremble--then the mass\n With myriad waves concurrent shall respond\n In low s... |
1,379 | 145_book_3,_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Featherstone's health has taken a turn for the worse, and now all his relatives are hanging around the house, waiting for him to die so that they can see where he left his money and land. His brothers and sisters think that they and their children have a better right to the inheritance than Mr. Featherstone's dead ... | [
"\"They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk.\"\n --SHAKESPEARE: Tempest.",
"The triumphant confidence of the Mayor founded on Mr. Featherstone's insistent demand that Fred and his mother should not leave him, was a feeble emotion compared with all that was agitating the breasts of... |
1,380 | 145_book_3,_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mary Garth is sitting up in Mr. Featherstone's room, in case he should want anything during the night. He wakes up and calls her over to his bedside. He asks her to get his will out of the safe, and gives her the keys. He wants her to burn the second will so that only the first will be valid. She refuses - without any ... | [
"\"Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close;\n And let us all to meditation.\"\n --2 Henry VI.",
"That night after twelve o'clock Mary Garth relieved the watch in Mr. Featherstone's room, and sat there alone through the small hours. She\noften chose this task, in which she fou... |
1,404 | 145_book_4,_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On a morning in May, Mr. Featherstone's funeral procession goes by Lowick manor to the cemetery at the Lowick churchyard. Celia and Sir James , Lady Chettam , Mr. Brooke, Dorothea, and Mrs. Cadwallader all watch the procession from a window at Lowick. Mr. Casaubon has politely welcomed the group, and then slipped off t... | [
"1st Gent. Such men as this are feathers, chips, and straws.\n Carry no weight, no force.\n 2d Gent. But levity\n Is causal too, and makes the sum of weight.\n For power finds its place in lack of power;\n Advanc... |
1,405 | 145_book_4,_chapter_35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | All of Featherstone's relatives are gathered to hear the lawyer read Featherstone's will. They're all nervously chattering about how they hope that they were "remembered" by old Featherstone in his will. The lawyer, Mr. Standish, arrives to read the will, and announces that there are actually two wills. He reads the ea... | [
"\"Non, je ne comprends pas de plus charmant plaisir\n Que de voir d'heritiers une troupe affligee\n Le maintien interdit, et la mine allongee,\n Lire un long testament ou pales, etonnes\n On leur laisse un bonsoir avec un pied de nez.\n Pour voir au naturel leur tristesse profonde\n Je revi... |
1,406 | 145_book_4,_chapter_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fred is depressed. Twenty-four hours ago, he thought that he would be rich and able to pay back Mr. Garth and marry Mary Garth without having to work for it. His father now wants him to commit to becoming a clergyman, but Fred still doesn't think he's cut out for it. Mr. Vincy is grumpy enough about Fred that he says h... | [
"\"'Tis strange to see the humors of these men,\n These great aspiring spirits, that should be wise:\n . . . . . . . .\n For being the nature of great spirits to love\n To be where they may be most eminent;\n They, rating of themselves so farre above\n Us in con... |
1,407 | 145_book_4,_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens with historical and political context: the old King has died and so Parliament's session has ended. This tells us the exact date: it's the summer of 1830. Historical Context Time: George Eliot assumes her readers in the 1870s would remember this, so the context she gives is short on detail. We're goin... | [
"\"Thrice happy she that is so well assured\n Unto herself and settled so in heart\n That neither will for better be allured\n Ne fears to worse with any chance to start,\n But like a steddy ship doth strongly part\n The raging waves and keeps her course aright;\n Ne aught for tempest doth f... |
1,408 | 145_book_4,_chapter_38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sir James is visiting the Cadwalladers' house, complaining about Mr. Brooke's going into politics as a Whig. Remember, Sir James has married Celia, Mr. Brooke's niece, so he has a family interest in keeping Mr. Brooke from making a fool of himself. Context Time: most old, wealthy families, like the Brookes or the Chett... | [
"\"C'est beaucoup que le jugement des hommes sur les actions\n humaines; tot ou tard il devient efficace.\"--GUIZOT.",
"Sir James Chettam could not look with any satisfaction on Mr. Brooke's\nnew courses; but it was easier to object than to hinder. Sir James\naccounted for his having come in alone one day to ... |
1,409 | 145_book_4,_chapter_39 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Brooke and Ladislaw are working in the library at the Grange when Dorothea shows up. Sir James, apparently, has told her that her uncle intended to improve the cottages on his estate, and we all know how much Dorothea cares about the state of the cottages. So she goes on and on about how great it will be for her uncle'... | [
"\"If, as I have, you also doe,\n Vertue attired in woman see,\n And dare love that, and say so too,\n And forget the He and She;",
"And if this love, though placed so,\n From prophane men you hide,\n Which will no faith on this bestow,\n Or, if they doe, deride:",
"Then you have... |
1,410 | 145_book_4,_chapter_40 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Garths are all seated around the table in the kitchen after breakfast. Mary and her parents are reading through the mail - two of the letters are for Mary, offering her teaching jobs at boarding schools for girls. Mary's not all that happy about going to teach at a school in far-away York, but the pay is good and s... | [
"Wise in his daily work was he:\n To fruits of diligence,\n And not to faiths or polity,\n He plied his utmost sense.\n These perfect in their little parts,\n Whose work is all their prize--\n Without them how could laws, or arts,\n Or towered cities rise?",
"In watching effects, if o... |
1,411 | 145_book_4,_chapter_41 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens with a description of Joshua Rigg Featherstone - he looks like a frog, as we've already been told, but he's generally a sober and upstanding guy, though possibly a little too ambitious. Rigg, or Rigg Featherstone, as everyone now has to call him , has a visitor - a guy named John Raffles. Apparently R... | [
"\"By swaggering could I never thrive,\n For the rain it raineth every day.\n --Twelfth Night",
"The transactions referred to by Caleb Garth as having gone forward\nbetween Mr. Bulstrode and Mr. Joshua Rigg Featherstone concerning the\nland attached to Stone Court, had occasioned th... |
1,412 | 145_book_4,_chapter_42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Casaubon has never asked Lydgate anything about his illness, and Dorothea has never hinted to her husband what Lydgate had told her - that Casaubon's illness could come back at any time, and that the next time it might kill him. But Casaubon decides that he needs to know what his prognosis is, partly because he wan... | [
"\"How much, methinks, I could despise this man\n Were I not bound in charity against it!\n --SHAKESPEARE: Henry VIII.",
"One of the professional calls made by Lydgate soon after his return\nfrom his wedding-journey was to Lowick Manor, in consequence of a\nletter which had requested ... |
1,381 | 145_book_5,_chapter_43 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea has decided to go to Middlemarch on her own to visit Mr. Lydgate and ask if Casaubon's symptoms had changed. She feels bad asking for information behind his back, but she's afraid that he's gotten sicker and is hiding it from her. Lydgate isn't home, but Mrs. Lydgate is. Dorothea has never met Rosamond, but as... | [
"This figure hath high price: 't was wrought with love\n Ages ago in finest ivory;\n Nought modish in it, pure and noble lines\n Of generous womanhood that fits all time\n That too is costly ware; majolica\n Of deft design, to please a lordly eye:\n The smile, you see, is perfect--wonderful\n A... |
1,382 | 145_book_5,_chapter_44 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea and Lydgate are discussing the new hospital. Lydgate explains that it's very important for the town to have this new fever hospital, but, because it's being funded mostly by Bulstrode, a lot of prominent townspeople are against it - Bulstrode isn't popular in certain circles. And some of the other medical men ... | [
"I would not creep along the coast but steer\n Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.",
"When Dorothea, walking round the laurel-planted plots of the New\nHospital with Lydgate, had learned from him that there were no signs of\nchange in Mr. Casaubon's bodily condition beyond the mental sign of\nanxiety to ... |
1,413 | 145_book_5,_chapter_45 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter jumps from one minor character to another, describing the impressions of average Middlemarchers about Lydgate's work as a doctor. Opinion is divided - most people acknowledge that he's smart, but the fact that Lydgate refuses to prescribe medicine that isn't needed makes some people distrust him. But his n... | [
"It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their\n forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times\n present. Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do,\n without the borrowed help and satire of times past;\n condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions\n of vic... |
1,414 | 145_book_5,_chapter_46 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Will and Brooke are discussing national politics, and Will is trying to make Brooke understand that he can't claim to agree with everyone. He needs to take a stance - rather than say that he supports Reform in a general way, he should say that he plans to support the old leaders who represent the status quo. Brooke nev... | [
"Pues no podemos haber aquello que queremos, queramos\n aquello que podremos.",
"Since we cannot get what we like, let us like\n what we can get.\n --Spanish Proverb.",
"While Lydgate, safely married and with the Hospital under his command,\nfelt himself struggling for ... |
1,415 | 145_book_5,_chapter_47 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Will has trouble falling asleep after his argument with Lydgate - he's thinking about whether he's made a mistake in settling in Middlemarch as a newspaper editor. He doesn't want Dorothea to think he's making a fool of himself. And speaking of Dorothea, Eliot reassures us that Will has no fantasies about marrying her ... | [
"Was never true love loved in vain,\n For truest love is highest gain.\n No art can make it: it must spring\n Where elements are fostering.\n So in heaven's spot and hour\n Springs the little native flower,\n Downward root and upward eye,\n Shapen by the earth and sky.",
"It h... |
1,416 | 145_book_5,_chapter_48 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea wasn't really annoyed with Will for coming - she was sad that Mr. Casaubon ignored him, and that's why she looked uncomfortable. Dorothea usually spends Sunday afternoons reading, but she can't get into any of her usual favorites. She feels like her life is empty, and that she'll never see Will - or any other ... | [
"Surely the golden hours are turning gray\n And dance no more, and vainly strive to run:\n I see their white locks streaming in the wind--\n Each face is haggard as it looks at me,\n Slow turning in the constant clasping round\n Storm-driven.",
"Dorothea's distress when she was leaving the church c... |
1,417 | 145_book_5,_chapter_49 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sir James and Mr. Brooke are arguing about Casaubon's will. Apparently there's something in the will that Dorothea won't like, and they're trying to decide if there's any way of keeping it from her. But she's an executrix, so she's bound to find out. The part of the will in question has something to do with Will Ladisl... | [
"A task too strong for wizard spells\n This squire had brought about;\n 'T is easy dropping stones in wells,\n But who shall get them out?\"",
"\"I wish to God we could hinder Dorothea from knowing this,\" said Sir\nJames Chettam, with a little frown on his brow, and an expression of\nintense disgust abo... |
1,418 | 145_book_5,_chapter_50 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea brings up the subject after having been at Fres***t for a week. She wants to start thinking about who's going to take over as the new vicar at Lowick. Historical Context Time! We should take a moment to explain why deciding who's going to be the next vicar of Lowick is such a big deal. Being a clergyman was co... | [
"\"'This Loller here wol precilen us somewhat.'\n 'Nay by my father's soule! that schal he nat,'\n Sayde the Schipman, 'here schal he not preche,\n We schal no gospel glosen here ne teche.\n We leven all in the gret God,' quod he.\n He wolden sowen some diffcultee.\"\n ... |
1,419 | 145_book_5,_chapter_51 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Will hasn't heard the gossip about the codicil in Mr. Casaubon's will. He hasn't been invited to Brooke's house as often as before, but he continues to work on the Pioneer for Brooke. Will is afraid that they're trying to keep him away from Dorothea, and is annoyed at the thought that they suspect him of trying to sedu... | [
"Party is Nature too, and you shall see\n By force of Logic how they both agree:\n The Many in the One, the One in Many;\n All is not Some, nor Some the same as Any:\n Genus holds species, both are great or small;\n One genus highest, one not high at all;\n Each species has its differentia too,\n ... |
1,420 | 145_book_5,_chapter_52 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Farebrother has gotten the news that he'll have the living at Lowick, and is celebrating with his mother, his aunt, and his sister. His sister tells him that he should marry now that he'll have a higher income, and suggests Mary Garth as a good choice. Farebrother doesn't say that he wouldn't like to marry Miss Gar... | [
"\"His heart\n The lowliest duties on itself did lay.\"\n --WORDSWORTH.",
"On that June evening when Mr. Farebrother knew that he was to have the\nLowick living, there was joy in the old fashioned parlor, and even the\nportraits of the great lawyers seemed to look on with satisf... |
1,421 | 145_book_5,_chapter_53 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Joshua Rigg Featherstone has sold the estate at Stone Court to Mr. Bulstrode. Bulstrode has hired Caleb Garth to manage the estate for him, and the two of them are talking business. Caleb's about to leave when Mr. Raffles comes up the lane looking for his stepson, Rigg. But when he sees Bulstrode, he calls him "Nick" ,... | [
"It is but a shallow haste which concludeth insincerity from\n what outsiders call inconsistency--putting a dead mechanism\n of \"ifs\" and \"therefores\" for the living myriad of hidden\n suckers whereby the belief and the conduct are wrought into\n mutual sustainment.",
"Mr. Bulstrode, when he was h... |
1,383 | 145_book_6,_chapter_54 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea has decided to move back to Lowick, despite Celia's pleadings. Dorothea isn't interested in staring at Celia's baby all day. She'd be happy to help take care of it, but there's a nurse to do all the dirty work, and watching the every move of an infant isn't her idea of a good time. Mrs. Cadwallader thinks that... | [
"\"Negli occhi porta la mia donna Amore;\n Per che si fa gentil eio ch'ella mira:\n Ov'ella passa, ogni uom ver lei si gira,\n E cui saluta fa tremar lo core.",
"Sicche, bassando il viso, tutto smore,\n E d'ogni suo difetto allor sospira:\n Fuggon dinanzi a lei Superbia ed ... |
1,384 | 145_book_6,_chapter_55 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea doesn't realize that she's falling in love with Will. She only considers that she's losing the only person she's ever really been able to talk to openly, and all because of Casaubon's unfair suspicions and jealousy. Dorothea's at dinner at Celia and Sir James' house, and Sir James' mother and Mrs. Cadwallader ... | [
"Hath she her faults? I would you had them too.\n They are the fruity must of soundest wine;\n Or say, they are regenerating fire\n Such as hath turned the dense black element\n Into a crystal pathway for the sun.",
"If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that\nour elders ar... |
1,422 | 145_book_6,_chapter_56 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Caleb tells his wife that Mrs. Casaubon is sensible, and understands how farms should operate. Dorothea has hired him as manager for all the farms on the Lowick estate. Caleb Garth is rapidly getting more work than he can do by himself. Eliot steps back to give us some broader historical context: the steam engine has b... | [
"\"How happy is he born and taught\n That serveth not another's will;\n Whose armor is his honest thought,\n And simple truth his only skill!\n . . . . . . .\n This man is freed from servile bands\n Of hope to rise or fear to fall;\n Lord of himself though not of lands;\n ... |
1,423 | 145_book_6,_chapter_57 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fred is on his way to Lowick parsonage, where Mary Garth is staying with Miss Farebrother to help her set up the new house. On his way, he stops to see Mrs. Garth. She hints that it was wrong of him to ask Mr. Farebrother to talk to Mary for him, and Fred realizes that Mr. Farebrother must be in love with Mary, too. He... | [
"They numbered scarce eight summers when a name\n Rose on their souls and stirred such motions there\n As thrill the buds and shape their hidden frame\n At penetration of the quickening air:\n His name who told of loyal Evan Dhu,\n Of quaint Bradwardine, and Vich Ian Vor,\n Making the ... |
1,424 | 145_book_6,_chapter_58 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rosamond has had a miscarriage, and Lydgate's medical opinion is that it's because she went horseback riding while he was out, when he told her she shouldn't. She went because Lydgate's cousin, Captain Lydgate , was visiting them, Lydgate didn't much like his cousin, because the cousin is a dumb lug. But Rosamond is pr... | [
"\"For there can live no hatred in thine eye,\n Therefore in that I cannot know thy change:\n In many's looks the false heart's history\n Is writ in moods and frowns and wrinkles strange:\n But Heaven in thy creation did decree\n That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell:\n Whate'er thy ... |
1,425 | 145_book_6,_chapter_59 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The gossip about how Mr. Casaubon's will made it impossible for Dorothea to marry Will Ladislaw without giving up her property eventually makes its way to Rosamond. Lydgate warns her never to mention it to Will, but she ignores his advice as usual. She flirtingly mentions it to Will the next time they're alone. He's im... | [
"They said of old the Soul had human shape,\n But smaller, subtler than the fleshly self,\n So wandered forth for airing when it pleased.\n And see! beside her cherub-face there floats\n A pale-lipped form aerial whispering\n Its promptings in that little shell her ear.\"",
"News is often dispersed... |
1,426 | 145_book_6,_chapter_60 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It's the day of an auction. In Middlemarch, large estate auctions are like mini festivals. Mr. Larcher and his wife are moving from Middlemarch to a huge, furnished mansion in nearby Riverston, and are selling all their old stuff before they go. Will Ladislaw is at the sale, because Mr. Bulstrode asked him as a favor t... | [
"Good phrases are surely, and ever were, very commendable.\n --Justice Shallow.",
"A few days afterwards--it was already the end of August--there was an\noccasion which caused some excitement in Middlemarch: the public, if it\nchose, was to have the advantage of buying, un... |
1,427 | 145_book_6,_chapter_61 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When Mr. Bulstrode gets home after the day of the auction, his wife tells him that someone had come to see him. It was Raffles. Raffles goes to see him the next day at the bank, and he comes home looking anxious. His wife thinks he has a headache, but he's really just thinking about his past, and wondering what to do a... | [
"\"Inconsistencies,\" answered Imlac, \"cannot both be right,\n but imputed to man they may both be true.\"--Rasselas.",
"The same night, when Mr. Bulstrode returned from a journey to Brassing\non business, his good wife met him in the entrance-hall and drew him\ninto his private sitting-room.",
"\"Nicholas,... |
1,428 | 145_book_6,_chapter_62 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Will is determined to see Dorothea one last time before he leaves Middlemarch, even though he already said his "final" farewell the last time he saw her. But her well-meaning brother-in-law, Sir James, doesn't like that Will is lingering around Middlemarch, and has heard that he's been spending an awful lot of alone ti... | [
"\"He was a squyer of lowe degre,\n That loved the king's daughter of Hungrie.\n --Old Romance.",
"Will Ladislaw's mind was now wholly bent on seeing Dorothea again, and\nforthwith quitting Middlemarch. The morning after his agitating scene\nwith Bulstrode he wrote a brief ... |
1,385 | 145_book_7,_chapter_63 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A group of Middlemarchers is at a dinner party, and the subject of Lydgate comes up . Minchin and Toller make snide remarks about how Lydgate uses his patients as guinea pigs for his new theories, and the other men grumble about how Lydgate "carried off" the prettiest girl in Middlemarch. The medical men hint that ther... | [
"These little things are great to little man.--GOLDSMITH.",
"\"Have you seen much of your scientific phoenix, Lydgate, lately?\" said\nMr. Toller at one of his Christmas dinner-parties, speaking to Mr.\nFarebrother on his right hand.",
"\"Not much, I am sorry to say,\" answered the Vicar, accustomed to parry\nM... |
1,386 | 145_book_7,_chapter_64 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Even if he weren't too proud to ask for help, Lydgate knows that there's no way Farebrother could get him out of debt. Lydgate needs a solid thousand pounds to do that. Lydgate's moodiness about their financial troubles is only widening the distance between himself and Rosamond. So when he tells her that they should tr... | [
"1st Gent. Where lies the power, there let the blame lie too.\n 2d Gent. Nay, power is relative; you cannot fright\n The coming pest with border fortresses,\n Or catch your carp with subtle argument.\n All force is twain in one: cause is not cause\n ... |
1,387 | 145_book_7,_chapter_65 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate has decided to go to his uncle in person to ask for assistance, and is about to tell Rosamond when a letter arrives for him from his uncle. He doesn't realize that Rosamond has already written to him, of course. Sir Godwin's letter tells Lydgate that he shouldn't ask his wife to write for him on business matter... | [
"\"One of us two must bowen douteless,\n And, sith a man is more reasonable\n Than woman is, ye [men] moste be suffrable.\n --CHAUCER: Canterbury Tales.",
"The bias of human nature to be slow in correspondence triumphs even\nover the present quickening in the general pace of th... |
1,388 | 145_book_7,_chapter_66 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate is stressed enough that he's started taking opium to chill out. He gets drawn into playing billiards for money, too, at the Green Dragon . Fred occasionally drops in at the Green Dragon for a quick game, but he doesn't play for money since he's trying to save up his salary to pay the Garths what he owes them. H... | [
"\"'Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,\n Another thing to fall.\"\n --Measure for Measure.",
"Lydgate certainly had good reason to reflect on the service his\npractice did him in counteracting his personal cares. He had no longer\nfree energy enough for spontaneous research and s... |
1,429 | 145_book_7,_chapter_67 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate had actually lost money at the Green Dragon, so he isn't tempted to go back again. He decides to ask for money from Mr. Bulstrode, even though he always had intended to stay financially independent of him. After all, he reasons, he's been working for Bulstrode's new hospital for free, and that's a major time co... | [
"Now is there civil war within the soul:\n Resolve is thrust from off the sacred throne\n By clamorous Needs, and Pride the grand-vizier\n Makes humble compact, plays the supple part\n Of envoy and deft-tongued apologist\n For hungry rebels.",
"Happily Lydgate had ended by losing in the billiard-ro... |
1,430 | 145_book_7,_chapter_68 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Bulstrode's decision to give up funding the hospital has to do with Raffles. Raffles reappeared in Middlemarch on Christmas Eve, and Bulstrode has been keeping him hidden away at his own house. He hinted to his wife and to the servants that this man had a screw loose and might be slightly dangerous, so he's the only pe... | [
"\"What suit of grace hath Virtue to put on\n If Vice shall wear as good, and do as well?\n If Wrong, if Craft, if Indiscretion\n Act as fair parts with ends as laudable?\n Which all this mighty volume of events\n The world, the universal map of deeds,\n Strongly controls, and proves from al... |
1,431 | 145_book_7,_chapter_69 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The same day Bulstrode turned down Lydgate's request for a personal loan, Caleb Garth shows up at his house to tell him that a man named Raffles has appeared at Stone Court, and is sick. But Caleb has also come to step down from his position as Bulstrode's agent. Raffles has told him about Bulstrode's past, and how his... | [
"\"If thou hast heard a word, let it die with thee.\"\n --Ecclesiasticus.",
"Mr. Bulstrode was still seated in his manager's room at the Bank, about\nthree o'clock of the same day on which he had received Lydgate there,\nwhen the clerk entered to say that his horse was waitin... |
1,432 | 145_book_7,_chapter_70 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Bulstrode goes through Raffles's pockets as soon as Lydgate leaves, and finds a receipt from a hotel about forty miles from Middlemarch. He's glad that he decided to stay up with Raffles, because the man is raving all night, asking for brandy, and accusing Bulstrode of trying to starve him to death out of revenge. Lydg... | [
"Our deeds still travel with us from afar,\n And what we have been makes us what we are.\"",
"Bulstrode's first object after Lydgate had left Stone Court was to\nexamine Raffles's pockets, which he imagined were sure to carry signs\nin the shape of hotel-bills of the places he had stopped in, if he had\nnot to... |
1,433 | 145_book_7,_chapter_71 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Bambridge and various other Middlemarch men are hanging out at the Green Dragon, gossiping. Bambridge tells the listeners that he'd had a drink or five with a guy named Raffles who had said that he knew all of Bulstrode's secrets and bragged that he could put him in jail if he liked. But Hopkins knows that a man na... | [
"Clown. . . . 'Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed,\n you have a delight to sit, have you not?\n Froth. I have so: because it is an open room, and good for winter.\n Clo. Why, very well then: I hope here be truths.\n --Measure for Measure.",
"Five days... |
1,389 | 145_book_8,_chapter_72 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea is inclined to believe the best of everybody, of course. Mr. Farebrother agrees with her, but doesn't know how they can go about vindicating Lydgate without asking him directly, and he would take that as an insult. Dorothea isn't afraid of that, though. She has a feeling that Lydgate wouldn't mind her sympathy... | [
"Full souls are double mirrors, making still\n An endless vista of fair things before,\n Repeating things behind.",
"Dorothea's impetuous generosity, which would have leaped at once to the\nvindication of Lydgate from the suspicion of having accepted money as a\nbribe, underwent a melancholy check when she ... |
1,390 | 145_book_8,_chapter_73 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate is miserable again. He doesn't know how to vindicate himself. But he also has to ask himself whether he would have asked more questions about Raffles's death if he hadn't just gotten a huge loan from Bulstrode. He considers returning the money to Bulstrode, but how can he, when it would mean going deep into deb... | [
"Pity the laden one; this wandering woe\n May visit you and me.",
"When Lydgate had allayed Mrs. Bulstrode's anxiety by telling her that\nher husband had been seized with faintness at the meeting, but that he\ntrusted soon to see him better and would call again the next day,\nunless she sent for him earlier, h... |
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