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But if Dorothea's friends had known this story if the Chettams had known it they would have had a fine color to give their suspicions a welcome ground for thinking him unfit to come near her. However, let them suspect what they pleased, they would find themselves in the wrong. They would find out that the blood in his veins was as free from the taint of meanness as theirs.
Two days afterwards, he was dining at the Manor with her uncle and the Chettams, and when the dessert was standing uneaten, the servants were out of the room, and Mr. Brooke was nodding in a nap, she returned to the subject with renewed vivacity. "Mr. Lydgate would understand that if his friends hear a calumny about him their first wish must be to justify him.
It'll all slip through his fingers." "On the contrary, papa, he will increase the practice. See how he has been called in by the Chettams and Casaubons." "I hope he knows I shan't give anything with this disappointment about Fred, and Parliament going to be dissolved, and machine-breaking everywhere, and an election coming on " "Dear papa! what can that have to do with my marriage?"
"She certainly is handsome, but I have not thought about it," said Lydgate. "I suppose it would be unprofessional," said Rosamond, dimpling. "But how your practice is spreading! You were called in before to the Chettams, I think; and now, the Casaubons." "Yes," said Lydgate, in a tone of compulsory admission. "But I don't really like attending such people so well as the poor.
Cadwallader said no more on that point to Dorothea, but to her husband she remarked, "It will be well for her to marry again as soon as it is proper, if one could get her among the right people. Of course the Chettams would not wish it. But I see clearly a husband is the best thing to keep her in order. If we were not so poor I would invite Lord Triton.
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