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1,391 | 145_book_8,_chapter_74 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Most women in Middlemarch feel sorriest for the wives of Mr. Bulstrode and Lydgate, since they have to bear the brunt of their husbands' humiliation. They feel sorrier for Mrs. Bulstrode than they do for her niece, Rosamond, though, because Mrs. Bulstrode has always been a cheerful, friendly woman, while Rosamond is ki... | [
"\"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. | Rosamond is depressed. She no longer has any hopeful prospects about Lydgate's family, and the only bright spots in her life are the occasional letters she receives from Will. She likes to believe that Will is secretly in love with her, not because she wants to cheat on her husband, but because she wants to be the cent... | [
"\"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. | Lydgate goes to Lowick Manor, at Dorothea's request, to discuss the new hospital with her. When he arrives, he tells her not to count on him for his continued help or advice at the hospital, because he might have to leave town. Dorothea immediately tells him that she has never believed the gossip about him, and asks hi... | [
"\"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. | Lydgate is out all day the next day, and Rosamond is looking forward to Will Ladislaw's visit. Dorothea has enjoyed thinking of Will since he left. She is proud of the fact that he was blameless in the gossip about Rosamond Lydgate. Dorothea has a letter for Lydgate with a check for a thousand pounds - she wants him to... | [
"\"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 is still standing in Rosamond's living room, staring at the door Dorothea has gone out. Rosamond sarcastically suggests that he go after Dorothea and explain that he likes her better. Will explodes at her. She's taken away the one thing in his life that he cared about - Dorothea's good opinion. After all, it would... | [
"\"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. | Will comes back, as promised, to visit Lydgate. He feels like a "sneak" by not admitting to Lydgate that he'd been there that morning, but he can't see a way around it. Lydgate tells him about all the problems they've had since he left Middlemarch . Lydgate concludes the story by saying that they're going to have to mo... | [
"\"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 to see Mr. Farebrother the next day at the parsonage. She tells him all about Lydgate, and after dinner spends some time chatting with Miss Noble and Mrs. Farebrother. The subject of Will Ladislaw comes up. Miss Noble has always adored Will, who was kinder to her than anyone. Dorothea abruptly moves to le... | [
"\"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. | When Dorothea arrives at the Lydgates' house, she sees Lydgate first. He immediately thanks her for her letter and the enclosed check. Lydgate goes upstairs to tell Rosamond that Dorothea is there. Rosamond can't imagine why Dorothea has come back after the events of the previous day, but she can't exactly tell her hus... | [
"\"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 has decided to visit Middlemarch to discuss his plans with Lydgate and to visit the Farebrothers. He's miserable about the misunderstanding with Dorothea, and he feels a little guilty about being so harsh with Rosamond. Rosamond sends him a note saying that she's told Dorothea everything. | [
"\"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 trying to read at home, but she can't concentrate. After a while, Miss Noble comes in. Will Ladislaw sent her, she says, because he's afraid that he's offended Dorothea, and wants to see her for a few minutes. He's waiting outside. Dorothea can't refuse. Miss Noble leaves, and sends Will in. Will at first t... | [
"\"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. | The Chettams and the Cadwalladers are talking politics - the Reform Bill has been shot down by the House of Lords. Historical Note: this places the story in May of 1832. The Reform Bill ends up passing by June of the same year. Back to the story: the conversation is interrupted when Mr. Brooke arrives. He has bad news,... | [
"\"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. | The Bulstrodes are preparing to leave Middlemarch permanently, and Bulstrode asks his wife if there's anything she'd like him to do as far as the property they're leaving behind . She says that she'd like to do something for her brother's family, the Vincys - especially for Rosamond and Lydgate. But since Lydgate has r... | [
"\"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 comes into his house and asks his wife where Mary is. He goes outside to have a serious chat with his daughter. He asks her if she's really sure about Fred, and willing to wait a long while to be married. Of course she is, and she's cheerful about it. Then her father tells her that Fred is going to live at Stone ... | [
"\"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... |
1,434 | 145_book_8:_finale | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The narrator tells us that we've reached the end of the story, but will go over all the major characters to tell us what happened to everyone: Mary and Fred live happily ever after and have lots of children, of course, and Fred even writes a book about farming, which everyone suspects his wife to have written. And then... | [
"Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending. Who can quit young\nlives after being long in company with them, and not desire to know\nwhat befell them in their after-years? For the fragment of a life,\nhowever typical, is not the sample of an even web: promises may not be\nkept, and an ardent outset may be fo... |
1,435 | 145_prelude_and_book_1_chapters_1-6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The first chapter introduces the character of Dorothea Brooke. She and her sister Celia are orphans in the care of their uncle, Mr. Brooke. Although she is from a wealthy family, Dorothea prefers to dress plainly. Still, she possesses "that kind of beauty that seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress." Dorothea lon... | [
"\"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... |
1,436 | 145_book_1_chapters_7-12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Casaubon looks forward to the end of the courtship, as he is eager to return his energies to his great work, the Key to all Mythologies. Dorothea offers to learn Latin and Greek in order to help him with his project. Casaubon, pleased with her submissive affection, consents to teach her. Mr. Brooke tells him that such ... | [
"\"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... |
1,437 | 145_book_2_chapters_13-16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Bulstrode plans to name Lydgate as superintendent of the new Fever Hospital. Farebrother warns Lydgate that he will incur professional jealousy among other Middlemarch medical men because he wants to reform their outdated treatments. The hospital lies within Mr. Farebrother's parish, but Bulstrode wishes to elect anoth... | [
"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... |
1,438 | 145_book_2_chapters_17-22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate visits Farebrother and learns that he supports his mother, aunt, and sister on his meager income. Farebrother's mother states that he compares to the best of clergymen, so he should have the position at the hospital. Lydgate learns that Tyke is a zealous, strict type. He also learns that Farebrother smokes, gam... | [
"\"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... |
1,439 | 145_book_3_chapters_23-27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fred did not want to go to his father about his debt, because Mr. Vincy tends to rage about his expensive habits. He settled on Caleb Garth, Mary's father. The Garths have always liked Fred. However, the family has little money, because Garth failed in the building business. He makes his living managing the estate of w... | [
"\"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... |
1,440 | 145_book_3_chapters_28-33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After returning home from Rome, Dorothea contemplates the portrait of Casaubon's ill-fated aunt and feels a reluctant kinship with her because she experienced marriage difficulties. Brooke comments to her that Casaubon looks pale. Celia tells Dorothea that she is engaged to Sir James Chettam. Casaubon thought he had fo... | [
"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... |
1,441 | 145_book_4_chapters_34-37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Featherstone's funeral is large and impressive in accordance with his wishes. Dorothea and the Brookes watch the funeral from a window. They observe a frog-eyed stranger in attendance. Celia informs Dorothea that Ladislaw is staying at Tipton Grange. The news displeases Casaubon. He believes that Dorothea asked Mr. Bro... | [
"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... |
1,442 | 145_book_4_chapters_38-42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sir James and the Cadwalladers discuss Brooke's political ambitions. The Trumpet, an opposing newspaper, criticizes Brooke's penchant for preaching in favor of charity for the poor while allowing his own tenants to live in relative squalor. He charges exorbitant rents, but his tenants live in miserable conditions. Sir ... | [
"\"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 ... |
1,443 | 145_book_5_chapters_43-48 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea visits Lydgate's home to ask if Casaubon consulted him because of new health problems. Lydgate is not home, but she discovers that Will is there visiting with Rosamond. Will offers to go to the New Hospital to fetch Lydgate, but Dorothea chooses to go to the hospital herself. She does not want to speak with Wi... | [
"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... |
1,444 | 145_book_5_chapters_49-53 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The day after Casaubon's burial, Sir James and Mr. Brooke discuss a codicil to his will. Casaubon has forbidden Dorothea to marry Will Ladislaw. Sir James demands that Brooke send Ladislaw out of the country, but Brooke says that he can't ship Will off like a head of cattle. They resolve to keep the codicil a secret fr... | [
"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... |
1,445 | 145_book_6_chapters_54-57 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea returns to Lowick Manor. She wishes to get to know Farebrother's household better. She also wishes to hear some word of Will, but she fears asking about him directly. Will himself chooses to visit her at Lowick. Will tells Dorothea that he plans to depart from Middlemarch soon, hoping to elicit some sign of st... | [
"\"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 ... |
1,446 | 145_book_6_chapters_58-62 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Captain Lydgate, Lydgate's cousin and son of Sir Godwin, comes to visit. The captain takes Rosamond out riding. Lydgate forbids her to go riding again because of her pregnancy. Rosamond defies him; she suffers an accident and miscarries. Lydgate gives a bill of sale on his furniture to his creditor as security for his ... | [
"\"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 ... |
1,447 | 145_book_7_chapters_63-67 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Farebrother catches Lydgate alone after dinner at the Vincys. He thanks Lydgate for freeing him of his gambling habit by convincing Dorothea to give him the Lowick parish. He says that he is chastened to realize how much a man's good behavior depends on not being in want of money. Lydgate coldly replies that all money ... | [
"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... |
1,448 | 145_book_7_chapters_68-71 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Looking rather ill, Raffles appears at Bulstrode's home on Christmas Eve and spends the night. Bulstrode sends him away the next morning with a hundred pounds. Bulstrode's wife is uneasy, so he tells her he is merely taking care of the "wretched creature." Bulstrode arranges to transfer the management of the bank and t... | [
"\"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... |
1,449 | 145_book_8_chapters_72-79 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea asks Farebrother if it would be possible to approach Lydgate about the scandal and offer help. Farebrother tells her that Lydgate may not respond positively to questioning. Sir James says that they cannot manage another man's life for him. Dorothea decides to wait until she approaches Lydgate about taking over... | [
"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 ... |
1,450 | 145_book_8_chapters_80-86 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea's anger and disappointment dissipate. She resolves to see Rosamond again. Lydgate consents to allow Dorothea to take over his debt from Bulstrode. Dorothea tells Rosamond that she, Farebrother, Sir James, and Mr. Brooke all support Lydgate wholeheartedly. Rosamond bursts into hysterical crying. Dorothea comfor... | [
"\"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 ... |
1,348 | 145_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The chapter opens with a detailed description of Dorothea Brooke, a beautiful girl not yet twenty years old. She and her younger sister, Celia, live with their bachelor uncle, Mr. Brooke, at Tipton Grange, near the town of Middlemarch. The family is part of the land owning Gentry in the region. The girls are considered... | [
"\"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_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The same evening there are guests at dinner at Tipton Grange. They are Sir James Chettam, a handsome young landlord, and Mr. Edward Casaubon a middle-aged clergyman from the neighboring parish of Lowick. Chettam is deeply impressed by Dorotheas beauty and character. He is half in love with her and tries to make himself... | [
"\"'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_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorotheas fascination with Casaubon continues next morning as he reveals to her his work of "attractively labyrinthine extent." His chosen goal is to show how all the mythical systems in the world are fragments of a tradition originally revealed. Dorothea is wonder-struck by this concept, which unifies knowledge with p... | [
"\"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_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The sisters are discussing Sir James. Celia suggests he is trying hard to please Dorothea. The latter insists that he look upon her as "a future sister." Celia shatters her illusion by conveying the maids gossip that Chettam is to marry "the elder Miss Brooke. " Dorothea is annoyed and disturbed. Seeing her chance, Cel... | [
"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_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Casaubons letter mentions his decision to remain single, until he finds in her a "rare combination of elements, both solid and attractive, adapted to supply aid in graver labors and to cast a charm over vacant hours." He offers her the "faithful consecration" of the rest of his life Dorothea trembles with feeling. The ... | [
"\"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_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The slow but inevitable progress of Dorotheas approaching marriage is broken here with a lively diversion. The penny pinching, outspoken Mrs. Cadwallader, without whom "the countryside would be somewhat duller," makes her entry. Married to the rector of Tipton parish, she is known to be "descended from unknown earls," ... | [
"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_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Casaubon, having spent most of his life alone, now looks forward to his marriage and "the graces of female companionship and support. But while Dorothea is whole hearted in her affection, he cannot find the same intensity in himself. He concludes, "the poets had much exaggerated the force of masculine passion." Dor... | [
"\"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_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sir James Chettam reconciles himself quite easily to losing Dorothea. One reason for this is the obvious unattractiveness of his successful rival! His disapproval changes to compassion for one so misguided as Dorothea. This compassion moves him to approach the local rector, Cadwallader, to intercede with Brooke. Cadwal... | [
"\"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_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | To Mr. Brookes satisfaction, Casaubon draws up a generous marriage settlement for Dorothea. He then drives with her family to his estate, Lowick Manor for her inspection of it. Casaubon has initially held only the parsonage on the estate, being the second son. On his elder brothers death, he has got the rest of the lar... | [
"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_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Will departs for Europe. The author describes him as a believer in spontaneity and "receptivity towards all sublime chances." He is not an addict, yet he has experimented with alcohol, opium, and fasting, in the search for knowledge. Long having been resigned to loveliness, Casaubon now expects a joyful married life wi... | [
"\"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_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Tertius Lydgate, a newcomer to Middlemarch is young attractive, dedicated to his work, and of "good family." He has one disadvantage - he is relatively poor. This, coupled with his sincere determination to complete his pioneering medical research, made him quite unwilling to consider marriage. Yet, the beautiful Rosamo... | [
"\"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_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Next day, the young Vincys visit the ailing Peter Featherstone at his farmhouse, Stone Court. This is not just a social visit. They are the niece and nephew of the rich Featherstones dead wife. Featherstone is a childless, old man of substantial wealth. This attracts the Vincys and a host of his own wealthy siblings, w... | [
"\"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_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Vincy calls on Mr. Bulstrode at the Bank. He is busy in a discussion with Lydgate. Bulstrodes subdued profound manner has been disliked by many, but Lydgate merely concludes that his constitution is unhealthy, and that he is mentally rather than physically active. Lydgate is enthusiastic about a separate hospital f... | [
"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_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fred receives Bulstrodes letter and promptly takes it to Stone Court. Featherstone receives it with much sarcasm. He has obviously been unwell and being nasty to Mary Garth. Fred is depressed about the situation, but docile because of is need of the money. He gets a hundred pounds, and is full of self-pity. He leaves F... | [
"\"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_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Here, George Eliot takes over the narration as "omniscient novelist" and describes Lydgates past and mental make up in detail. He has been orphaned in childhood, and left unprovided for, in spite of having rich relatives. When the talented boy asked to be apprenticed to a doctor, his gratified guardians had assented to... | [
"\"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_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The issue of whether Tyke or Farebrother should be elected chaplain at the old hospital was debated among the notable Middlemarchers. To Bulstrode, it was not a minor matter, but an important link in the web through which he exercises control over the traders, charities and has their gained dominance as a banker. Fareb... | [
"\"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_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One more of the rich character portraits in the novel is sketched in here. Lydgate unites the home of the bachelor Camden Farebrother. He lives with his mother, aunt, and elder unmarried sister. Given the slimness of a parish priests salary, the household is threadbare but charming and hospitable. Each lady is visualiz... | [
"\"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_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate was indifferent to the voting on the question of chaplaincy at the hospital. Having met Farebrother and been drawn to him, he faces a dilemma. His personal preference is for Farebrother, who has a humane touch and who has been serving as chaplain all along without pay. Now that the post is an earned one, it see... | [
"\"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_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After laying the basis for the other two stories, G. Eliot takes no back to the trials of Dorothea. Will Ladislaw happens to be in Rome. He begins to study painting from a talented German artist, Adolf Naumann. They both spend time at the Vatican, studying ancient works and painting. One morning Naumann excitedly calls... | [
"\"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_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea is quite unaware of being observed by the two men. She is wrapped up in her own misery. In Rome, a courier hired by Mr. Casaubon, who has been busy with his research, has efficiently showed her around. Inevitably, Dorotheas idealistic hopes of marriage with him are cracking. Simultaneously, her excessively int... | [
"\"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_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea returns from the Vatican and breaks down weeping as soon as she is alone. Just then Will arrives to pay a courtesy call. She composes herself and meets him. Will is stunned to discover her alone on her honeymoon. He was filled "with a sort of comic disgust" to think of Casaubon," groping after his moldy futili... | [
"\"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_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Will comes to dinner, and is both respectful and entertaining. He speaks seldom to Dorothea and offers to show them an artists studio, as they are to return home shortly. He takes them to Naumann's studio, explaining that he was "one of the chief renovators of Christian art" and that he was his teacher. Naumann has bee... | [
"\"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_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This chapter deals with the lightweight, childish Fred who is liked by everyone for his affectionate nature. Freds father is a typical character, one who is a hard-working businessman and mayor. Having achieved some prosperity in the town he and his easy-going wife have pampered their children and raised them to be "ge... | [
"\"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_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Inevitably, the new horse is shown to be vicious in temper, it hurts the groom and lames its leg by wild kicking in the stable. Freds only hope of repaying the debt on time is gone. He goes to Caleb Garths office to confess his folly. Garth being out, he goes to his house. Here, Susan Garth, an older version of Mary is... | [
"\"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_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fred rushes to Stone Court to confess to Mary. He thinks prompt confession will gain him immediate forgiveness. Mary is furious with him and deeply disturbed about her familys suffering. She denounces his selfish pleasure seeking which doesnt care who suffers as a consequence. Fred is filled with despair. She feels sor... | [
"\"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_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fred arrives home feeling feverish and ill. His mother sends for Wrench, one of the local doctors, who do not feel his ailment, is serious. He hands over some powders and departs Next day, Fred is much worse, and Wrench, being out on is rounds, cannot be reached. Rosamond sees Lydgate on the street and suggests calling... | [
"\"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_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Vincys send their smaller children elsewhere to be safe from infection. Rosamond insists on remaining at home ostensibly to help her parents. In fact, says the author she believes providence has arranged Freds illness and Wrenchs mistake just no that she should come closer to Lydgate! Mrs. Vincy is so much affected... | [
"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_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Casaubon's return from their fiasco of a honeymoon. Looking around Lowich Manor, Dorothea felt everything has shrunk, as have her hopes of a fulfilling busy life. She was still surrounded by "the stifling oppression of that gentlewomans world, where everything was done for her, and none asked for her aid." She reme... | [
"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_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Just as Dorothea is suffering a sense of disappointment and frustration after her marriage, so is Casaubon. He is gradually becoming aware that marrying a very young emotional girl, under the notion that she will be docile and malleable, has misfired. He is too inhibited and solitary from long habit, to let himself fee... | [
"\"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_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate tells Casaubon that stress and over-exertion cause his illness. He recommends moderation in work and some relaxation. Casaubon is miserable at the idea of rest or hobbies, of which he has none. He ignores Brookes eager suggestions that he take up fishing, carpentry, or card games or shuttlecock. Lydgate meets D... | [
"\"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_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Up to this point Lydgate had enjoyed a light flirtation with Rosamond, unaware that she wished for anything else. Now, Mrs. Vincy move with Fred to Featherstone's house, for a change of air. Rosamond is alone in the daytime and there are gossips about her meetings with Lydgate all over Middlemarch. Her friend to Mrs. B... | [
"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_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While the Vincys, comfortably installed at Stone Court were complacent about Freds inheritance, Featherstones other relatives were agitated. Knowing that his death was close, his brothers and sisters all clustered round him, though he had never hidden his dislike for them. The rich ones believed their wealth gave them ... | [
"\"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_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mary sits by the old mans bed after midnight. She finds it peaceful after all the visitors demands and their unwanted presence all day. From herself, she has no expectations of any inheritance, and doubts whatever Freds hopes will be fulfilled. At three oclock, the old man calls her to his side. He asks her to open his... | [
"\"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_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | This is a very illuminating scene dealing with the funeral of Peter Featherstone. It is held at Lowick Church and presided over by Mr. Cadwallader. Casaubon is ill, but Featherstone has demanded Cadwallader whom he likes. In every way, the funeral has been stage-managed by Featherstone himself, down to demanding that h... | [
"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_chapter_35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The mourners at Featherstones funeral felt on seeing each other, that "so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous. " Both Mary and Fred were objects of suspicion to the "Christian Carniora" as the author calls them. The stranger Rigg, obviously an heir, arouses even more curiosity, bei... | [
"\"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_chapter_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Vincy family is hit hard by the terms of the will. Mr. Vincy orders Fred to return to university the following month and pass his exams. Mrs. Vincy pours out indulgent motherly affection on Fred, but it doesnt console him. Fred dreamt of living in perfect ease, with the best of horses, of paying back Caleb Garths l... | [
"\"'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_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The author describes an England in which political uncertainty is the dominant trend. King George IV has died; the Conservatives are passing Liberal laws; while some Tories are giving Liberals electoral support! It is a time o change in society. These currents have not yet touched the common Middlemarchers, but change... | [
"\"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_chapter_38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sir James Chettam is deeply worried. Brooke is rumored to be standing as an independent or the next election. Chettam is afraid that the established parties will make an all out attack on Brookes neglect of his land and tenants, and create a local scandal. He visits the Cadwalladers to ask for support in dissuading Bro... | [
"\"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_chapter_39 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sir James speaks to Dorothea about Brooke, and takes her to Tipton, hoping she will influence her uncle. She enters in the evening to find Brooke and Will in the library. She begins with her usual directness, saying she is glad that he has decided to employ Garth to reorganize his farms. She expresses her constant revu... | [
"\"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_chapter_40 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Garth family is gathered together over breakfast. Mary gloomily decides to accept a teaching job at a school, though she doesnt enjoy teaching. The whole family offers lively opinions on the subject though Caleb is sad that they cant afford to keep her at home. Soon after, Caleb receives an offer from Chettam of th... | [
"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_chapter_41 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Both Bulstrode and Rigg have asked Caleb to value the land attached to stone court. Some letters have passed between the first two on the same subject. Rigg is an unattractive looking man, a quality stressed by the disappointed heirs of Old Featherstone. Yet he was a sober, calm person with no known vices. Being from t... | [
"\"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_chapter_42 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Up to this point, Casaubon has never displayed any fear of or even interest in his medical condition. But as the suspicion and jealousy of Ladislaw grows, he feels the need to know how much of life is left to him. He sends for Lydgate. Casaubon is locked into his loneliness and frustration. Every gesture of Dorotheas s... | [
"\"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_chapter_43 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea is certain that her husband has gone through a crisis. How much he knows about his illness is not clear to her. She decides to meet Lydgate and find out she drives to Lydgates new house in Lowick Gate to meet him away from her husband. There, Rosamond is occupying herself by learning some songs from Will Ladis... | [
"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_chapter_44 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate meets Dorothea at the new hospital. He reassures her that there havent been any physical changes in Casaubons condition, but that he has been anxious to know the truth. After that, Lydgate cannot resist trying to interest her in the hospital itself. He tells her opposition to the whole project is chiefly person... | [
"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_chapter_45 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgates new methods aroused mixed reactions throughout the region. Amongst the general public, his wish to "cut up" Mrs. Goby who died of mysterious causes created opposition, while among his medical colleagues, the maximum outrage was attracted by his decision not to dispense drugs himself. His enemies felt giving pi... | [
"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_chapter_46 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Middlemarch folk had earlier treated Lydgates reforms, and local scandals as major controversies. Gradually, they become aware of massive political changes taking place at the national level. This is the epoch of the first Reform Bill of 1832 floated by Lord John Russell. This Bill was a reflection of a tremendous shif... | [
"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_chapter_47 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | So far Will has tried to content himself with friends and activities far away from Dorothea. Now he begins to chafe at the separation from her and the tyranny of her hated husband. As a result, he decides to attend Lowick Church on Sunday morning sure of seeing the Casaubons there. He has none of the dishonest intentio... | [
"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_chapter_48 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Distressed by Casaubons total rejection of Will, Dorothea is restless all day. She feels worn out by "the perpetual effort demanded by her married life." As his illness gets worse, Casaubon relies on her assistance more, and she feels she is "in a virtual tomb, where there was the apparatus of a ghastly labor producing... | [
"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_chapter_49 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is the day after Casaubons burial and Dorothea is still ill. Chettam and Brooke are talking in the library at Lowick. Chettam is livid with anger at a codicil added to Casaubons will. After leaving the bulk of his property to Dorothea, her husband has added a proviso that she will inherent nothing if she marries Lad... | [
"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_chapter_50 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea is restless after a week of domestic bliss at Celias house with the new baby. She broods over what that last demand of her husbands had referred to. Brooke resists her request to be taken to Lowick Manor. Then Celia tells her all about the codicil in the will, and Lydgate agrees that she should do whatever giv... | [
"\"'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_chapter_51 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Will is not aware of Casaubons will. He is busy as parliament has been dissolved and the election is round the corner. Brooke means to stand, with the Reform Bill as his plank and Will is the prime mover in his campaign. Yet Will notices that Brooke is not so free, with invitations to Tipton Grange now. He concludes th... | [
"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_chapter_52 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Farebrother and his family are filled with joy, as Dorothea has appointed him rector of Lowick. The increased salary and good house that goes with it are very welcome to them. Farebrother happily gives up his whist, which gave him some qualms about his winnings. He jovially tells his sister she should now marry, wh... | [
"\"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_chapter_53 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Joshua Rigs sells Stone Court in haste to Bulstrode, an arch- enemy of his father, Featherstone. The old house is being renovated and the farmland improved by Bulstrode with loving care. Bulstrode is a person who believes that his worldly success is a sign of divine approval of his life and acts. In his youth, Bulstrod... | [
"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_chapter_54 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Three months after Casaubons death, Dorothea moves back to Lowick Manor. She feels suffocated in Celias bower, where the only activity is to marvel at the Haleys acts. Celia is a little offended, as she cant understand Dorotheas melancholy, thinking her sister well-rid of a troublesome husband. Dorothea makes the Fareb... | [
"\"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_chapter_55 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The loss of Will troubles Dorothea and she broods alone at Lowick. On a visit to Celia, Dorotheas heavy mourning dress troubles her sister. She insists on removing her widows cap and freeing her hair, to Sir James great satisfaction. Mrs. Cadwallader, who is also visiting them, takes off from a discussion on mourning t... | [
"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_chapter_56 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Dorothea has met Caleb Garth in connection with the workers cottages on Chettams land. They both respect each other and naturally, Dorothea asks Caleb to manage the three farms attached to Lowick manor. During this period preliminary work for putting down railway lines is being carried out in the area. Many landowners ... | [
"\"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_chapter_57 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fred goes to Lowick Parsonage, where Mary is spending a few days with the Farebrothers, helping the old ladies settle down. On the way, he visits the Garths, wishing to inform Mrs. Garth about his new work and seeking her approval. Her scholarly son, Christy, is back home for a holiday and she holds him up as an exampl... | [
"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_chapter_58 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate and Rosamonds differences have been surfacing rapidly. He finds his impression that she was docile was an illusion. She finds herself disappointed in the notion that his talent and "high" connections would lead to advancement and wealth. Meanwhile, their debts are multiplying. One of his "noble" cousins, a mili... | [
"\"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_chapter_59 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Fred Vincy hears about the notorious will of Casaubon from the old ladies at Lowick parsonage. He carries the news to Rosamond. Although Lydgate has known about the will, he has kept silent so far. Now, he warns Rosamond against repeating the story to Ladislaw. But she cant resist the temptation to tease Will. Thus, he... | [
"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_chapter_60 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At the end of August, there is a big auction of household effects in Middlemarch. In the sleepy monotony of the district, this auction is somewhat a gala affair. Food and drink are served lavishly and most people put in an appearance. Mr. Borthtrop Trumbull, a colorful person, is the auctioneer; and is at his verbose b... | [
"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_chapter_61 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Raffles follows Bulstrode both at home and at work. Finally, he demands more money and reveals the facts about Ladislaw. This puts Bulstrode through intense introspection and torment. He goes over his past when he had been a talented member and preacher in a dissenting sect in London. A rich member of the sect, Mr. Dun... | [
"\"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_chapter_62 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Having found out about the will, Ladislaw decides he must meet Dorothea once more and depart. Earlier he had hoped he could return and claim her after establishing himself. Now he feels that is impossible and he must say a final goodbye. He goes to her house to find she has gone out, then goes to Tipton to collects som... | [
"\"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_chapter_63 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Mr. Farebrother meets the medical men at various Christmas parties. He hears a lot of talk about Lydgates dwindling patients and increasing debts. As a good friend, the vicar wants to help. The chance comes at a New Year party at the Vincys. All the Vincy children, the Farebrothers family, and even Mary Garth were pres... | [
"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_chapter_64 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Some men, caught up in domestic problems, comfort themselves with the idea they are great souls trapped in dullness. Lydgate has so much conceit. He was bitter from the awareness, "there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolatio... | [
"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_chapter_65 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The Lydgates simmer in their own private hell. Lydgate even considers meeting his rich uncle to ask for a loan. While he hesitates, a letter from the same uncle arrives. Rosamond is thrilled, anticipating a positive reply to her request of which her husband is ignorant. The letter is an insulting reply to Rosamonds app... | [
"\"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_chapter_66 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The only relief Lydgate could get from his personal troubles was in his work. He had no time or energy for research, but he could lose himself in giving his patient painstaking and sensitive treatment and care. However, when the tension got too much, he took opium on one or two occasions. But stopped after that. Anothe... | [
"\"'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_chapter_67 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Lydgate is lucky to lose at billiards as that brings him to his senses so far as betting goes. He now has little alternative other than a personal loan. Rosamond tells him her father has already refused and suggested Bulstrode as another source. Lydgate hesitates to involve himself with the pious banker, an association... | [
"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_chapter_68 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Bulstrodes decision to withdraw from the new hospital and retire to another area had been prompted by the increasingly bold demands of Raffles. He now comes to Bulstrodes house and insists on staying overnight. The desperate Bulstrode gives him an ultimatum next morning that future demands should be made by letter. He ... | [
"\"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_chapter_69 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | A solemn Caleb calls in Bulstrode at he bank. He tells him he has picked up a seriously ill person called Raffles in his gig and left him at Stone Court. He advises Bulstrode to arrange immediate medical care for Raffles. Before leaving, Caleb asks Bulstrode to relieve him if all work related to Stone Court. He is very... | [
"\"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_chapter_70 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Bulstrode goes through Raffles pockets to find out where he has been staying. All the evidence points to his having been far form Middlemarch before his illness. Bulstrode strictly follows Lydgates instructions and ban on alcohol for the sick man. Raffles raves and abuses him and charges him with taking revenge by star... | [
"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... |
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