Middlemarch : a study of provincial life . is much diviner than anything you haveseen of her. I see, I see. You are jealous. No man must presume tothink that he can paint your ideal. This is serious, my friend!Your great-aunt! ^ Der Neffe als Onkel in a tragic sense —ungeheuer! You and I shall quarrel, Naumann, if you call that ladymy aunt again. How is she to be called then ? Mrs. Casaubon. ^ Good. Suppose I get acquainted with her in spite of you,and find that she very much wishes to be painted ? Yes, suppose! said Will Ladislaw, in a contemptuousundertone, intended to dismiss the subject. H
Middlemarch : a study of provincial life . is much diviner than anything you haveseen of her. I see, I see. You are jealous. No man must presume tothink that he can paint your ideal. This is serious, my friend!Your great-aunt! ^ Der Neffe als Onkel in a tragic sense —ungeheuer! You and I shall quarrel, Naumann, if you call that ladymy aunt again. How is she to be called then ? Mrs. Casaubon. ^ Good. Suppose I get acquainted with her in spite of you,and find that she very much wishes to be painted ? Yes, suppose! said Will Ladislaw, in a contemptuousundertone, intended to dismiss the subject. He was consciousof being irritated by ridiculously small causes, which were halfof his own creation. Why was he making any fuss about ? And yet he felt as if something had happened tohim with regard to her. There are characters which are con-tinually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramaswhich nobody is prepared to act with them. Their suscep-tibilities will clash against objects that remain ^liiilili at- Celia. OLD AND YOUNG. 201 CHAPTEK XX. A child forsaken, waking suddenly,Whose gaze afeard on all things round doth rove,And seeth only that it cannot seeThe meeting eyes of love. Two hours later, Dorothea was seated in an inner room orboudoir of a handsome apartment in the Via Sistina. I am sorry to add that she was sobbing bitterly, with suchabandonment to this relief of an oppressed heart as a womanhabitually controlled by pride on her own account and thought-fulness for others will sometimes allow herself when she feelssecurely alone. And ^Ir. Casaubon was certain to remain awayfor some time at the Vatican. Yet Dorothea had no distinctly shapen grievance that shecould state even to herself; and in the midst of her confusedthought and passion, the mental act that was struggling forthinto clearness was a self-accusing cry that her feeling of deso-lation was the fault of her own spiritual poverty. She hadmarried the man of her ch
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