Middlemarch — Chronicle
Ordered by year. Years come from what the text itself states — taken as written, never inferred; events with no stated year carry forward from the last anchor, marked “c.”. Every event links back to one sentence of the original.
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349 events · 15 dated directly by the text · the rest carried forward
1829 (124 events)
Chapters 15–24
Ch. 15 · when he was fresh from a public school
He had been left an orphan when he was fresh from a public school.
Ch. 15 · one vacation
But the moment of vocation had come, and before he got down from his chair, the world was made new to him
Ch. 15 · 📍 [[the theatre of the Porte Saint Martin]] · One evening
the wife veritably stabbed her husband, who fell as death willed.
Ch. 15 · 📍 [[Avignon]] · the next day
But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.
Ch. 15 · 📍 [[Paris]] · Three days afterwards
Three days afterwards Lydgate was at his galvanism again in his Paris chambers
Ch. 16
“Do you care about dancing at all? I am not quite sure whether clever men ever dance.” “I would dance with you if you would allow me.” “Oh!” said Rosamond, with a slight deprecatory laugh. “I was only going to say that we sometimes have dancing, and I wanted to know whether you would feel insulted if you were asked to come.” “Not on the condition I mentioned.”
Ch. 17 · 📍 [[a German bath]]
He is practising at a German bath, and has married a rich patient.
Ch. 18 · 📍 [[Infirmary]]
“I perceive that the votes are equally divided at present,” said Mr. Bulstrode, in a clear biting voice. Then, looking up at Lydgate—
Ch. 18 · 📍 [[Infirmary]]
Tertius Lydgate Rev. Walter Tyke
“It may be offensive to others. But I shall not desist from voting with him on that account.” Lydgate immediately wrote down “Tyke.”
Ch. 18 · 📍 [[Infirmary]]
Rev. Walter Tyke Tertius Lydgate Mr. Bulstrode
So the Rev. Walter Tyke became chaplain to the Infirmary, and Lydgate continued to work with Mr. Bulstrode.
Ch. 19 · 📍 [[Rome]] · In those days
Mrs. Casaubon, born Dorothea Brooke, had taken her wedding journey to Rome.
Ch. 19 · 📍 [[Rome]]
Will Ladislaw Dorothea Mr. Casaubon
I know that she is married to my cousin,” said Will Ladislaw
Ch. 20 · for the first time since Dorothea had known him
Both were shocked at their mutual situation—that each should have betrayed anger towards the other.
Ch. 21 · 📍 [[Rome]]
Tantripp had brought a card, and said that there was a gentleman waiting in the lobby.
Ch. 21 · 📍 [[Rome]] · to-morrow
Mr. Casaubon gravely hoped that Will was passing his time profitably as well as pleasantly in Rome—had thought his intention was to remain in South Germany—but begged him to come and dine to-morrow
Ch. 21 · 📍 [[Rome]]
Dorothea Will Ladislaw Mr. Casaubon
the Germans have taken the lead in historical inquiries, and they laugh at results which are got by groping about in woods with a pocket-compass while they have made good roads.
Ch. 21 · 📍 [[Rome]]
Forgive me for speaking so hastily to you this morning. I was wrong. I fear I hurt you and made the day more burdensome.
Ch. 22 · 📍 [[Rome]] · on the morrow
Will Ladislaw Mr. Casaubon Dorothea
it was agreed that Will should come on the morrow and drive with them.
Ch. 22
he arranged for the purchase of the picture in which Saint Thomas Aquinas sat among the doctors of the Church
Ch. 22 · the morrow
On the morrow Santa Clara too was retouched more than once.
Ch. 22 · 📍 [[England]] · shortly
I mean to go back to England shortly and work my own way—depend on nobody else than myself.
Ch. 23 · Three months later
Fred Vincy Mr. Bambridge Caleb Garth
Three months later he had renewed this bill with the signature of Caleb Garth.
Ch. 23
Whereupon Caleb drew down his spectacles, and proceeded to write his signature with the care which he always gave to that performance;
Ch. 23
His failure in passing his examination, had made his accumulation of college debts the more unpardonable by his father
Ch. 23
Mr. Vincy had sworn that if he had anything more of that sort to put up with, Fred should turn out and get his living how he could;
Ch. 23 · once made
But that present of bank-notes, once made, was measurable
Ch. 23 · Before he set out
Before he set out, Fred got the eighty pounds from his mother.
Ch. 23 · 📍 [[Houndsley]] · the next morning
He would start for Houndsley horse-fair which was to be held the next morning, and—simply sell his horse
Ch. 23 · 📍 [[Houndsley]] · even before the fair had well set in
Fred believed in the excellence of his bargain, and even before the fair had well set in, had got possession of the dappled gray, at the price of his old horse and thirty pounds in addition
Ch. 24 · only the third day after the propitious events at Houndsley
this Diamond, in which hope to the amount of eighty pounds had been invested, had without the slightest warning exhibited in the stable a most vicious energy in kicking, had just missed killing the groom, and had ended in laming himself severely by catching his leg in a rope that overhung the stable-board.
Ch. 24
Fred Vincy Caleb Garth Mrs. Garth
I am come to tell you and Mrs. Garth that I can’t keep my word. I can’t find the money to meet the bill after all. I have been unfortunate; I have only got these fifty pounds towards the hundred and sixty.
Ch. 24
Oh, I didn’t tell you, Susan: I put my name to a bill for Fred; it was for a hundred and sixty pounds. He made sure he could meet it himself.
Ch. 24
Mrs. Garth Caleb Garth Mary Garth
I must give you the ninety-two pounds that I have put by for Alfred’s premium,” said Mrs. Garth, gravely and decisively, though a nice ear might have discerned a slight tremor in some of the words. “And I have no doubt that Mary has twenty pounds saved from her salary by this time. She will advance it.
Ch. 24
I am disappointed in Fred Vincy,” said Mrs. Garth. “I would not have believed beforehand that he would have drawn you into his debts.
Chapters 25–35
Ch. 25 · 📍 [[Stone Court]] · this morning
Fred Vincy Mary Garth Caleb Garth
I owed money—a hundred and sixty pounds. I asked your father to put his name to a bill.
Ch. 25 · 📍 [[Stone Court]] · soon after dusk
Caleb Garth Mrs. Garth Mary Garth
I’ve got something to tell you, my dear,” said Caleb in his hesitating way. “No very good news; but then it might be worse.”
Ch. 25 · 📍 [[Stone Court]] · soon after dusk
Mary took out the folded money from her reticule and put it into her father’s hand.
Ch. 25 · 📍 [[Stone Court]]
But I will never engage myself to one who has no manly independence, and who goes on loitering away his time on the chance that others will provide for him.
Ch. 26 · the next morning
rose at his usual easy hour the next morning and went down-stairs meaning to breakfast, but succeeded in nothing but in sitting and shivering by the fire.
Ch. 26
he was convinced that Fred was in the pink-skinned stage of typhoid fever, and that he had taken just the wrong medicines.
Ch. 26 · afterwards
He swallowed his ire for the moment, but he afterwards wrote to decline further attendance in the case.
Ch. 26
However, Lydgate was installed as medical attendant on the Vincys, and the event was a subject of general conversation in Middlemarch.
Ch. 27 · 📍 [[Stone Court]] · the morning after Fred’s illness had declared itself
Therefore, while Miss Morgan and the children were sent away to a farmhouse the morning after Fred’s illness had declared itself, Rosamond refused to leave papa and mamma.
Ch. 27
Dr. Sprague Tertius Lydgate Fred Vincy
but after two consultations, the conduct of the case was left to Lydgate
Ch. 27
Especially when the critical stage was passed, and he began to feel confident of Fred’s recovery.
Ch. 27 · 📍 [[Lowick Manor]] · Only a few days later
Tertius Lydgate Sir James Chettam
The servant was Sir James Chettam’s, and the house was Lowick Manor.
Ch. 29 · 📍 [[Lowick]] · One morning
I must decline the proposal it contains to pay a visit here.
Ch. 29 · 📍 [[Lowick]] · One morning
Why do you attribute to me a wish for anything that would annoy you? You speak to me as if I were something you had to contend against.
Ch. 29 · 📍 [[Lowick]] · that morning
he was evidently in great straits for breath. Jumping on a stool she got close to his elbow
Ch. 29 · 📍 [[Lowick]] · that morning
Mr. Casaubon Dorothea Sir James Chettam
Sir James Chettam came in, having been met in the hall with the news that Mr. Casaubon had “had a fit in the library.”
Ch. 29 · 📍 [[Lowick]] · that morning
Mr. Casaubon Dorothea Tertius Lydgate
So Mr. Lydgate was sent for and he came wonderfully soon
Ch. 30
Tertius Lydgate Dorothea Mr. Casaubon
On the other hand, it is possible that the disease may develop itself more rapidly: it is one of those cases in which death is sometimes sudden.
Ch. 30
I wish you to understand that I shall not say anything to enlighten Mr. Casaubon himself.
Ch. 30
Dorothea Mr. Brooke Will Ladislaw
Dorothea ended by giving the letter to her uncle, who was still in the house, and begging him to let Will know that Mr. Casaubon had been ill, and that his health would not allow the reception of any visitors.
Ch. 30 · 📍 [[Tipton Grange]] · at that time
by the end of the second page it had persuaded Mr. Brooke to invite young Ladislaw, since he could not be received at Lowick, to come to Tipton Grange.
Ch. 31 · The next day
He resolved—and kept his resolution—that he would not go to Mr. Vincy’s except on business.
Ch. 31
In half an hour he left the house an engaged man, whose soul was not his own, but the woman’s to whom he had bound himself.
Ch. 31 · That evening
Mr. Vincy Tertius Lydgate Rosamond
when his approbation of Rosamond’s engagement was asked for, he gave it with astonishing facility
Ch. 32 · 📍 [[Stone Court]]
Peter Featherstone Fred Vincy Mrs. Vincy
Mr. Featherstone’s insistent demand that Fred and his mother should not leave him
Ch. 32 · 📍 [[Stone Court]]
Peter Featherstone Solomon Featherstone Jane Waule
No, I shan’t,” said old Featherstone, contradictiously. “I shan’t think of any of you. I’ve made my will, I tell you, I’ve made my will.”
Ch. 32 · 📍 [[Stone Court]]
Peter Featherstone Solomon Featherstone Jane Waule
“Good-by, Solomon,” he added, trying to wield his stick again, but failing now that he had reversed the handle. “Good-by, Mrs. Waule. Don’t you come again.”
Ch. 33 · About three o’clock
I’ve made two wills, and I’m going to burn one.
Ch. 33
I cannot touch your iron chest or your will. I must refuse to do anything that might lay me open to suspicion.
Ch. 33 · The next moment
The next moment she ran to the bell and rang it energetically. In a very little while there was no longer any doubt that Peter Featherstone was dead, with his right hand clasping the keys, and his left hand lying on the heap of notes and gold.
Ch. 34 · 📍 [[Lowick churchyard]] · on a morning of May
It was on a morning of May that Peter Featherstone was buried.
Ch. 34 · 📍 [[the Grange]]
He came with me, you know; he is my guest—puts up with me at the Grange,
Ch. 35 · 📍 [[Stone Court]]
the Vincys themselves were surprised when ten thousand pounds in specified investments were declared to be bequeathed to him
Ch. 35 · 📍 [[Stone Court]]
Joshua Rigg Peter Featherstone
that residuary legatee was Joshua Rigg, who was also sole executor, and who was to take thenceforth the name of Featherstone.
Ch. 35 · 📍 [[Lowick parish]]
Joshua Rigg Peter Featherstone
The second will revoked everything except the legacies to the low persons before mentioned (some alterations in these being the occasion of the codicil), and the bequest of all the land lying in Lowick parish with all the stock and household furniture, to Joshua Rigg. The residue of the property was to be devoted to the erection and endowment of almshouses for old men
Chapters 36–45
Ch. 36
Mr. Vincy Rosamond Tertius Lydgate
I shan’t give my consent to their marrying. Let ’em wait, as their elders have done before ’em.
Ch. 36
He has always said that he wished me to marry the man I loved. And I shall marry Mr. Lydgate.
Ch. 36 · 📍 Middlemarch
The certainty that Miss Vincy and Mr. Lydgate were engaged became general in Middlemarch without the aid of formal announcement.
Ch. 36 · 📍 [[Lowick Gate]]
Lydgate, having heard Rosamond speak with admiration of old Mrs. Bretton’s house (situated in Lowick Gate), took notice when it fell vacant after the old lady’s death, and immediately entered into treaty for it.
Ch. 36
I could certainly hasten the work,” said Rosamond. “Will you, then, mention it to papa?
Ch. 36
Mr. Vincy’s answer consisted chiefly in a demand that Lydgate should insure his life—a demand immediately conceded.
Ch. 37 · 📍 [[Lowick]]
It was an abominable thing that my grandmother should have been disinherited because she made what they called a mesalliance, though there was nothing to be said against her husband except that he was a Polish refugee who gave lessons for his bread.
Ch. 37 · The next morning
to state at once that your acceptance of the proposal above indicated would be highly offensive to me.
Ch. 37 · this night
Dorothea Mr. Casaubon Will Ladislaw
What I now wish you to understand is, that I accept no revision, still less dictation within that range of affairs which I have deliberated upon as distinctly and properly mine. It is not for you to interfere between me and Mr. Ladislaw
Ch. 37 · The next day
pardon me for not seeing that those obligations should restrain me from using the ordinary freedom of living where I choose, and maintaining myself by any lawful occupation I may choose.
Ch. 38 · 📍 Middlemarch
What Brooke trusts to, is that they are going to turn out Oliver because he is a Peelite.
Ch. 38 · 📍 Middlemarch
I find he’s in everybody’s mouth in Middlemarch as the editor of the ‘Pioneer.’
Ch. 38 · 📍 Middlemarch
I see they are beginning to attack our friend Brooke in the ‘Trumpet,’
Ch. 38
But I should like you to tell me of another landlord who has distressed his tenants for arrears as little as I have.
Ch. 39
I presume you know that Mr. Casaubon has forbidden me to go to his house.
Ch. 39
Your little lad Jacob has been caught killing a leveret, Dagley: I have told Johnson to lock him up in the empty stable an hour or two
Ch. 39 · 📍 [[Dagley’s]] · before night
But he will be brought home by-and-by, before night: and you’ll just look after him, will you, and give him a reprimand, you know?
Ch. 39 · 📍 [[Dagley’s]]
An’ you may do as you like now, for I’m none afeard on you. An’ you’d better let my boy aloan, an’ look to yoursen, afore the Rinform has got upo’ your back.
Ch. 39 · 📍 [[Dagley’s]]
He walked out of the yard as quickly as he could, in some amazement at the novelty of his situation.
Ch. 40 · 📍 [[Freshitt]] · on the following day
Sir James Chettam Mr. Brooke Caleb Garth
It was from Sir James Chettam, offering to Mr. Garth the management of the family estates at Freshitt and elsewhere, and adding that Sir James had been requested by Mr. Brooke of Tipton to ascertain whether Mr. Garth would be disposed at the same time to resume the agency of the Tipton property.
Ch. 40 · 📍 [[York]]
Mary, write and give up that school. Stay and help your mother.
Ch. 40
Tell him it doesn’t signify a farthing,” said Caleb, waving his hand. “We’ve had the pinch and have got over it.
Ch. 40 · before term
He means to try again for his degree, and he is going up to study before term.
Ch. 40 · the very night he died
Caleb Garth Mary Garth Peter Featherstone Fred Vincy Mr. Farebrother
The old scoundrel wanted Mary to burn one of the wills the very night he died, when she was sitting up with him by herself, and he offered her a sum of money that he had in the box by him if she would do it. But Mary, you understand, could do no such thing—would not be handling his iron chest, and so on. Now, you see, the will he wanted burnt was this last, so that if Mary had done what he wanted, Fred Vincy would have had ten thousand pounds.
Ch. 40
Peter Featherstone Joshua Rigg Featherstone Fred Vincy
Why, that Rigg, or Rigg Featherstone, was one. But Bulstrode was before him, so I’m going to do it for Bulstrode. Whether it’s mortgage or purchase they’re going for, I can’t tell yet. ... Here is the land they’ve been all along expecting for Fred, which it seems the old man never meant to leave him a foot of, but left it to this side-slip of a son
Ch. 41 · 📍 [[Stone Court]]
Joshua Rigg Featherstone Raffles
She shall have her weekly allowance paid and no more: and that shall be stopped if you dare to come on to these premises again, or to come into this country after me again. The next time you show yourself inside the gates here, you shall be driven off with the dogs and the wagoner’s whip.
Ch. 41 · 📍 [[Stone Court]]
Raffles Joshua Rigg Featherstone
Rigg came forward with a brandy-bottle, filled the flask, and handed Raffles a sovereign, neither looking at him nor speaking to him.
Ch. 41
The paper with which he had wedged it was a letter signed Nicholas Bulstrode, but Raffles was not likely to disturb it from its present useful position.
Ch. 42 · 📍 [[Yew-tree Walk]]
I believe that you are suffering from what is called fatty degeneration of the heart, a disease which was first divined and explored by Laennec, the man who gave us the stethoscope, not so very many years ago. A good deal of experience—a more lengthened observation—is wanting on the subject. But after what you have said, it is my duty to tell you that death from this disease is often sudden.
Ch. 42 · that night
She put her hand into her husband’s, and they went along the broad corridor together.
Ch. 43 · 📍 [[Lowick Gate]] · Two days after that scene in the Yew-tree Walk
Dorothea Will Ladislaw Rosamond
“Mr. Ladislaw was here singing with me when Mrs. Casaubon came in. He seemed vexed.
Ch. 43 · 📍 [[Lowick Gate]]
Rosamond Will Ladislaw Dorothea
“Do you know, I think he adores Mrs. Casaubon.”
Ch. 44 · that evening
Dorothea Mr. Casaubon Tertius Lydgate
She did mention it that evening, and said that she should like to subscribe two hundred a-year—she had seven hundred a-year as the equivalent of her own fortune, settled on her at her marriage. Mr. Casaubon made no objection beyond a passing remark that the sum might be disproportionate in relation to other good objects, but when Dorothea in her ignorance resisted that suggestion, he acquiesced.
Ch. 45 · 📍 [[New Hospital]] · Meanwhile
Meanwhile he framed his plan of management. The Hospital was to be reserved for fever in all its forms; Lydgate was to be chief medical superintendent, that he might have free authority to pursue all comparative investigations which his studies, particularly in Paris, had shown him the importance of, the other medical visitors having a consultative influence, but no power to contravene Lydgate’s ultimate decisions; and the general management was to be lodged exclusively in the hands of five directors associated with Mr. Bulstrode, who were to have votes in the ratio of their contributions, the Board itself filling up any vacancy in its numbers, and no mob of small contributors being admitted to a share of government.
Ch. 45 · 📍 [[Fever Hospital]]
There was an immediate refusal on the part of every medical man in the town to become a visitor at the Fever Hospital. “Very well,” said Lydgate to Mr. Bulstrode, “we have a capital house-surgeon and dispenser, a clear-headed, neat-handed fellow; we’ll get Webbe from Crabsley, as good a country practitioner as any of them, to come over twice a-week, and in case of any exceptional operation, Protheroe will come from Brassing. I must work the harder, that’s all, and I have given up my post at the Infirmary.
Ch. 45 · 📍 [[Infirmary]] · Meanwhile
The staymaker’s wife went to fetch Lydgate, and he continued for a fortnight to attend Nancy in her own home, until under his treatment she got quite well and went to work again.
Ch. 45
Mr. Borthrop Trumbull Tertius Lydgate
It may be imagined that Mr. Trumbull rose from his couch with a disposition to speak of an illness in which he had manifested the strength of his mind as well as constitution;
Ch. 45 · 📍 [[Parley Street]]
For Lydgate having attended Mrs. Goby, who died apparently of a heart-disease not very clearly expressed in the symptoms, too daringly asked leave of her relatives to open the body,
Chapter 46
Ch. 46 · 📍 [[Brassing]] · since he began
and making the “Pioneer” celebrated as far as Brassing
1831 (78 events)
Chapters 47–57
Ch. 47 · Saturday evening
She had once said that she would like him to stay; and stay he would, whatever fire-breathing dragons might hiss around her.
Ch. 47 · 📍 [[Lowick Church]] · Sunday
That will be a virtual defiance of Mr. Casaubon’s prohibition to visit Lowick, and Dorothea will be displeased.
Ch. 48
Mr. Casaubon was determined not to speak to his cousin, and that Will’s presence at church had served to mark more strongly the alienation between them.
Ch. 48
Mr. Casaubon’s original reluctance to let Dorothea work with him had given place to the contrary disposition, namely, to demand much interest and labor from her.
Ch. 48 · that night
It is that you will let me know, deliberately, whether, in case of my death, you will carry out my wishes: whether you will avoid doing what I should deprecate, and apply yourself to do what I should desire.
Ch. 48 · 📍 [[Yew-tree Walk]]
But the silence in her husband’s ear was never more to be broken.
Ch. 48 · Later in the day
Later in the day, Lydgate was seated by her bedside, and she was talking deliriously, thinking aloud, and recalling what had gone through her mind the night before.
Ch. 49 · 📍 [[Lowick Grange]] · the day after Mr. Casaubon had been buried
It was the day after Mr. Casaubon had been buried, and Dorothea was not yet able to leave her room.
Ch. 49 · 📍 [[Lowick Grange]]
Mr. Casaubon Dorothea Will Ladislaw
I say that he has most unfairly compromised Dorothea. I say that there never was a meaner, more ungentlemanly action than this—a codicil of this sort to a will which he made at the time of his marriage with the knowledge and reliance of her family—a positive insult to Dorothea!
Ch. 50 · 📍 [[Lowick]] · the next day
At Lowick Dorothea searched desk and drawer—searched all her husband’s places of deposit for private writing, but found no paper addressed especially to her
Ch. 51 · 📍 [[White Hart]] · a fine May morning
Mr. Brooke, disagreeably anointed, stood his ground no longer.
Ch. 51
namely, to withdraw in favor of another candidate, to whom he left the advantages of his canvassing machinery.
Ch. 51
Since you are going to part with the “Pioneer,” I need not trouble you about the steps I shall take.
Ch. 52 · 📍 [[Lowick]] · that June evening
On that June evening when Mr. Farebrother knew that he was to have the Lowick living
Ch. 52 · Hardly a week later
Hardly a week later, Duty presented itself in his study under the disguise of Fred Vincy, now returned from Omnibus College with his bachelor’s degree.
Ch. 52
I find that the first will would not have been legally good after the burning of the last
Ch. 52 · 📍 [[Lowick parsonage]]
I have too strong a feeling for Fred to give him up for any one else.
Ch. 52 · 📍 [[Lowick parsonage]]
I cannot possibly say that I will ever be his wife, Mr. Farebrother: but I certainly never will be his wife if he becomes a clergyman.
Ch. 52 · 📍 [[Lowick parsonage]]
But please tell him I will not promise to marry him till then: I should shame and grieve my father and mother. He is free to choose some one else.
Ch. 53 · 📍 [[Stone Court]] · hardly fifteen months after the death of Peter Featherstone
Mr. Bulstrode Joshua Rigg Peter Featherstone
However, whether for sanction or for chastisement, Mr. Bulstrode, hardly fifteen months after the death of Peter Featherstone, had become the proprietor of Stone Court
Ch. 53 · 📍 [[Lowick Church]]
Mr. Bulstrode’s ... doubts ... arose from reflecting that this dispensation too might be a chastisement for himself, as Mr. Farebrother’s induction to the living clearly was.
Ch. 53 · 📍 [[Stone Court]] · One evening
“By Jove, Nick, it’s you! I couldn’t be mistaken, though the five-and-twenty years have played old Boguy with us both!”
Ch. 53 · 📍 [[Stone Court]] · the next morning
“I’ve often thought since, I might have done better by telling the old woman that I’d found her daughter and her grandchild”
Ch. 53 · 📍 [[Stone Court]] · not more than half-past seven in the morning
“Your quarterly payment won’t quite suit me. I like my freedom.”
Ch. 54 · 📍 [[Lowick Manor]] · After three months
Dorothea had again taken up her abode at Lowick Manor.
Ch. 54 · 📍 [[Freshitt]]
Celia Arthur Chettam Mr. Brooke
the birth of little Arthur (baby was named after Mr. Brooke).
Ch. 54 · 📍 [[Lowick Manor]] · Very soon
I intend to go to town and eat my dinners as a barrister
Ch. 54 · 📍 [[Lowick Manor]]
Mr. Casaubon Dorothea Will Ladislaw
Mr. Casaubon’s codicil, barring Dorothea’s marriage with Will, except under a penalty
Ch. 55 · that morning
that morning’s parting with Will Ladislaw seemed to be the close of their personal relations.
Ch. 55 · 📍 [[Freshitt]] · Later in the evening
I shall never marry again,” said Dorothea, touching her sister’s chin, and looking at her with indulgent affection.
Ch. 55 · 📍 [[Freshitt]] · Later in the evening
I should like to take a great deal of land, and drain it, and make a little colony, where everybody should work
Ch. 56 · 📍 [[Yoddrell’s farm]] · One morning, not long after that interview between Mr. Farebrother and Mary Garth
Solomon Featherstone Hiram Ford Timothy Cooper Caleb Garth Fred Vincy
were driving the men in coats before them with their hay-forks; while Caleb Garth’s assistant, a lad of seventeen, who had snatched up the spirit-level at Caleb’s order, had been knocked down and seemed to be lying helpless
Ch. 56
Caleb Garth Hiram Ford Timothy Cooper
“Aw, we wooant meddle—they may do as they loike for oos”—were the forms in which Caleb got his pledges
Ch. 56 · the next morning
You’ll save me Callum’s salary, you know, when you can write; and I can afford to give you eighty pounds for the first year, and more after.
Ch. 56 · 📍 [[the warehouse]]
Fred entered on the subject directly, and declared briefly what he had done and was resolved to do
Ch. 56 · 📍 [[the warehouse]]
Of course your mother will want you to stay. But I shall keep no horse for you, you understand; and you will pay your own tailor.
Ch. 57
Mrs. Garth Fred Vincy Mr. Farebrother Mary Garth
“Do you mean to say, Mrs. Garth, that Mr. Farebrother is in love with Mary?”
Ch. 57 · 📍 [[Lowick parsonage]]
Fred Vincy Caleb Garth Mary Garth
He told her first of Christy’s arrival and then of his own engagement with her father;
Ch. 57 · 📍 [[Lowick parsonage]]
“I only said that no mortal ever made love to me besides you. And that is no argument that a very wise man ever will,” she ended, merrily.
Chapters 58–64
Ch. 58
Her baby had been born prematurely, and all the embroidered robes and caps had to be laid by in darkness.
Ch. 58 · 📍 [[Halsell wood]]
But the gentle gray, unprepared for the crash of a tree that was being felled on the edge of Halsell wood, took fright, and caused a worse fright to Rosamond, leading finally to the loss of her baby.
Ch. 58
Captain Lydgate Tertius Lydgate
Lydgate could not show his anger towards her, but he was rather bearish to the Captain, whose visit naturally soon came to an end.
Ch. 58 · 📍 [[Brassing]]
The consequence is, there is a large debt at Brassing—three hundred and eighty pounds—which has been pressing on me a good while, and in fact we are getting deeper every day
Ch. 58 · to-morrow
Rosamond Tertius Lydgate Mr. Dover
This is all the jewellery you ever gave me. You can return what you like of it, and of the plate also. You will not, of course, expect me to stay at home to-morrow. I shall go to papa’s.
Ch. 59 · 📍 [[Lowick Parsonage]] · on that evening
Fred Vincy Mr. Casaubon Will Ladislaw Dorothea
their old servant had got from Tantripp concerning Mr. Casaubon’s strange mention of Mr. Ladislaw in a codicil to his will made not long before his death.
Ch. 59 · one day
Hence Fred talked by preference of what he considered indifferent news, and “a propos of that young Ladislaw” mentioned what he had heard at Lowick Parsonage.
Ch. 59 · The next time Will came when Lydgate was away
Rosamond Will Ladislaw Mr. Casaubon Dorothea
“Don’t know that Mr. Casaubon has left it in his will that if Mrs. Casaubon marries you she is to forfeit all her property?”
Ch. 60 · 📍 [[Riverston]] · the end of August
which warranted his purchase of a mansion near Riverston already furnished in high style by an illustrious Spa physician
Ch. 60 · 📍 Middlemarch · the second day
But it was knocked down to him at ten guineas
Ch. 60 · 📍 Middlemarch · Later in the evening
Raffles Will Ladislaw Sarah Dunkirk Archie Duncan
She ran away from her friends when she was a young lass—a proud-spirited lass, and pretty, by Jove! I knew the reason why she ran away
Ch. 60 · 📍 [[Lowick Gate]] · Later in the evening
There was this to confirm the fellow’s statement—that his mother never would tell him the reason why she had run away from her family.
Ch. 61 · 📍 [[Highbury]] · Years before
Years before, the only daughter had run away, defied her parents, and gone on the stage;
Ch. 61 · 📍 [[Highbury]] · after a short time
now the only boy died, and after a short time Mr. Dunkirk died also.
Ch. 61 · after a time
Efforts to find her must be made before Mrs. Dunkirk would marry again. Bulstrode concurred; but after advertisement as well as other modes of inquiry had been tried, the mother believed that her daughter was not to be found, and consented to marry without reservation of property.
Ch. 61
The daughter had been found; but only one man besides Bulstrode knew it, and he was paid for keeping silence and carrying himself away.
Ch. 61 · after five years
And after five years Death again came to widen his path, by taking away his wife.
Ch. 61 · 📍 [[the Shrubs]] · to-night
Mr. Bulstrode Will Ladislaw Sarah Dunkirk Mrs. Dunkirk
I have heard her say that she thought her mother did not know the reason of her running away. She said ‘poor mother’ in a pitying tone. “That mother became my wife,” said Bulstrode, and then paused a moment before he added, “you have a claim on me, Mr. Ladislaw: as I said before, not a legal claim, but one which my conscience recognizes.
Ch. 61 · 📍 [[the Shrubs]] · that evening
The business was established before I became connected with it, sir; nor is it for you to institute an inquiry of that kind,” he answered, not raising his voice, but speaking with quick defiantness.
Ch. 61 · 📍 [[the Shrubs]] · that evening
You shall keep your ill-gotten money. If I had any fortune of my own, I would willingly pay it to any one who could disprove what you have told me. What I have to thank you for is that you kept the money till now, when I can refuse it. It ought to lie with a man’s self that he is a gentleman. Good-night, sir.
Ch. 62 · 📍 [[Lowick Manor]] · The morning after his agitating scene with Bulstrode
he wrote a brief letter to her, saying that various causes had detained him in the neighborhood longer than he had expected, and asking her permission to call again at Lowick
Ch. 62 · 📍 [[the Grange]]
As Mrs. Kell closed the door behind her they met: each was looking at the other, and consciousness was overflowed by something that suppressed utterance.
Ch. 62 · 📍 [[Freshitt]] · that morning
Dorothea Will Ladislaw Mrs. Cadwallader
“All false!” said Mrs. Cadwallader. “He is not gone, or going, apparently; the ‘Pioneer’ keeps its color, and Mr. Orlando Ladislaw is making a sad dark-blue scandal by warbling continually with your Mr. Lydgate’s wife
Ch. 62 · 📍 [[the Grange]]
What I care more for than I can ever care for anything else is absolutely forbidden to me
Ch. 62 · 📍 [[the Grange]] · The day after to-morrow
“The day after to-morrow I shall leave Middlemarch.”
Ch. 62 · 📍 Middlemarch · the next evening
That evening Will spent with the Lydgates; the next evening he was gone.
Ch. 63 · 📍 [[New Hospital]]
He gives a great deal of time to the New Hospital... He is preparing a new ward in case of the cholera coming to us.
Ch. 63 · only the other day
Tertius Lydgate Mr. Farebrother Dorothea
It was Brooke who let it out, only the other day. He paid me the compliment of saying that he was very glad I had the living though you had come across his tactics, and had praised me up as a Ken and a Tillotson, and that sort of thing, till Mrs. Casaubon would hear of no one else.
Ch. 63
Mr. Farebrother Tertius Lydgate
He knew as distinctly as possible that this was an offer of help to himself from Mr. Farebrother, and he could not bear it.
Ch. 64 · that morning
Tertius Lydgate Borthrop Trumbull
I was about to fulfil his order, if possible, this afternoon. He wished me not to procrastinate.
Ch. 64 · 📍 [[St. Peter’s Place]] · that morning
Mr. Ned Plymdale has taken a house already.
Ch. 64 · that morning
I called to tell you not to go any further, Mr. Trumbull; and I beg of you not to mention what has been said on the subject.
Ch. 64 · the next day
And she wrote what she considered the most judicious letter possible—one which would strike Sir Godwin as a proof of her excellent sense—pointing out how desirable it was that Tertius should quit such a place as Middlemarch for one more fitted to his talents, how the unpleasant character of the inhabitants had hindered his professional success, and how in consequence he was in money difficulties, from which it would require a thousand pounds thoroughly to extricate him.
Ch. 64 · New Year’s Day
Tertius Lydgate Borthrop Trumbull Sir Godwin Lydgate
And though he had not given the promise which his wife had asked for, he did not go again to Trumbull. He even began to think of taking a rapid journey to the North and seeing Sir Godwin.
1832 (102 events)
Chapters 65–71
Ch. 65 · in 1832
Tertius Lydgate Rosamond Sir Godwin Lydgate
DEAR TERTIUS,—Don’t set your wife to write to me when you have anything to ask.
Ch. 65 · in 1832
Sir Godwin Lydgate Tertius Lydgate
As to my supplying you with a thousand pounds, or only half that sum, I can do nothing of the sort.
Ch. 65 · that morning
It will be impossible to endure life with you, if you will always be acting secretly—acting in opposition to me and hiding your actions.
Ch. 65 · that morning
I cannot possibly make admissions or promises in answer to such words as you have used towards me.
Ch. 65 · that morning
Lydgate drew his chair near to hers and pressed her delicate head against his cheek with his powerful tender hand.
Ch. 66 · 📍 [[Green Dragon]] · One evening
with a swift glancing thought of the probable gain which might double the sum he was saving from his horse, he began to bet on his own play, and won again and again.
Ch. 66 · 📍 [[Green Dragon]] · that evening
He made first-rate strokes himself, and began to bet against Lydgate’s strokes, the strain of whose nerves was thus changed from simple confidence in his own movements to defying another person’s doubt in them.
Ch. 66 · 📍 [[Green Dragon]] · that evening
Lydgate had not before seen that Fred was present, and his sudden appearance with an announcement of Mr. Farebrother had the effect of a sharp concussion.
Ch. 66 · 📍 [[St. Botolph’s]] · The next thing he said was
I was tempted to do the opposite of what I am doing—to hold my tongue and wait while you went down the ladder again, betting first and then—
Ch. 66 · In that way they parted
I will try to be worthy,” he said, breaking off before he could say “of you as well as of her.
Ch. 67 · 📍 [[Bank]] · that particular morning
I have slipped into money difficulties which I can see no way out of, unless some one who trusts me and my future will advance me a sum without other security.
Ch. 67 · 📍 [[Bank]]
My advice to you, Mr. Lydgate, would be, that instead of involving yourself in further obligations, and continuing a doubtful struggle, you should simply become a bankrupt.
Ch. 67 · 📍 [[Bank]]
I contemplate at least a temporary withdrawal from the management of much business, whether benevolent or commercial.
Ch. 67 · 📍 [[Bank]]
I shall therefore, in case of my ultimate decision to leave Middlemarch, consider that I withdraw other support to the New Hospital
Ch. 67 · 📍 [[Bank]]
The change I mean is an amalgamation with the Infirmary, so that the New Hospital shall be regarded as a special addition to the elder institution, having the same directing board.
Ch. 67 · 📍 [[Bank]]
She has informed me that though she has destined the chief part of those funds to another purpose, she is willing to consider whether she cannot fully take my place in relation to the Hospital.
Ch. 68 · 📍 [[The Shrubs]] · On Christmas Eve
On Christmas Eve he had reappeared at The Shrubs.
Ch. 68 · 📍 [[Ilsely]] · the next morning
It succeeded in enforcing submission from the jaded man this morning: his empoisoned system at this moment quailed before Bulstrode’s cold, resolute bearing, and he was taken off quietly in the carriage before the family breakfast time.
Ch. 68 · Christmas day
Raffles had recovered his spirits, and parted in a contentment for which there was the good reason that the banker had given him a hundred pounds.
Ch. 68 · 📍 Middlemarch
That recoil had at last urged him to make preparations for quitting Middlemarch.
Ch. 68 · 📍 [[Stone Court]]
Mr. Bulstrode Caleb Garth Fred Vincy
Hence Mr. Garth got the assurance he desired, namely, that in case of Bulstrode’s departure from Middlemarch for an indefinite time, Fred Vincy should be allowed to have the tenancy of Stone Court on the terms proposed.
Ch. 69 · 📍 [[Stone Court]]
I took him myself,” said Caleb, quietly—“took him up in my gig. He had got down from the coach, and was walking a little beyond the turning from the toll-house, and I overtook him.
Ch. 69 · 📍 [[Bank]] · about three o’clock of the same day
I wish to say, Mr. Bulstrode, that I must request you to put your business into some other hands than mine. I am obliged to you for your handsome way of meeting me—about the letting of Stone Court, and all other business. But I must give it up.”
Ch. 69 · 📍 [[Bank]]
Raffles Caleb Garth Mr. Bulstrode
But, sir—I am obliged to believe that this Raffles has told me the truth. And I can’t be happy in working with you, or profiting by you.
Ch. 69 · 📍 [[Stone Court]] · In less than an hour
Tertius Lydgate Raffles Mr. Bulstrode
When he had thoroughly examined and considered the patient, Lydgate ordered that he should go to bed, and be kept there in as complete quiet as possible
Ch. 69 · 📍 [[Stone Court]]
I will remain here myself,” said Bulstrode. “Mrs. Abel and her husband are inexperienced. I can easily remain here for the night
Ch. 69
he was returning to his home without the vision of any expedient in the background which left him a hope of raising money enough to deliver him from the coming destitution
Ch. 69 · 📍 [[Lowick Gate]] · early in the morning
For on entering he found that Dover’s agent had already put a man in the house
Ch. 70
If you will wait a moment, Mr. Lydgate, I will draw a check to that amount.
Ch. 70
But the danger is over; the debt is paid. I am out of my difficulties now: I shall be freed from debts, and able, I hope, to start afresh on a better plan.
Ch. 70 · 📍 [[Stone Court]] · At six o’clock
Mr. Bulstrode Mrs. Abel Raffles
At six o’clock, Raffles, having had only fitful perturbed snatches of sleep, from which he waked with fresh restlessness and perpetual cries that he was sinking away, Bulstrode began to administer the opium according to Lydgate’s directions.
Ch. 70 · 📍 [[Stone Court]] · that night
Mr. Bulstrode Mrs. Abel Raffles
Here a key was thrust through the inch of doorway, and Mr. Bulstrode said huskily, “That is the key of the wine-cooler. You will find plenty of brandy there.”
Ch. 70 · 📍 [[Stone Court]] · between three and four o’clock
Raffles Mr. Bulstrode Tertius Lydgate
He went off gradual between three and four o’clock.
Ch. 70 · 📍 [[Stone Court]] · at half-past ten
Raffles Tertius Lydgate Mr. Bulstrode
Lydgate arrived at half-past ten, in time to witness the final pause of the breath.
Ch. 71 · within the last week
Caleb was betrayed into no word injurious to Bulstrode beyond the fact which he was forced to admit, that he had given up acting for him within the last week.
Ch. 71 · 📍 [[Green Dragon]] · Five days after the death of Raffles
It was mainly what we know, including the fact about Will Ladislaw, with some local color and circumstance added: it was what Bulstrode had dreaded the betrayal of—and hoped to have buried forever with the corpse of Raffles—it was that haunting ghost of his earlier life which as he rode past the archway of the Green Dragon he was trusting that Providence had delivered him from.
Ch. 71 · 📍 Middlemarch · all at once
But the news that Lydgate had all at once become able not only to get rid of the execution in his house but to pay all his debts in Middlemarch was spreading fast
Ch. 71 · 📍 Middlemarch
The inferences were closely linked enough; the town knew of the loan, believed it to be a bribe, and believed that he took it as a bribe.
Ch. 71 · 📍 [[Town-Hall]]
It is our united sentiment that Mr. Bulstrode should be called upon—and I do now call upon him—to resign public positions which he holds not simply as a tax-payer, but as a gentleman among gentlemen.
Ch. 71 · 📍 [[Town-Hall]]
Mr. Thesiger Mr. Bulstrode Tertius Lydgate
I recommend you at present, as your clergyman, and one who hopes for your reinstatement in respect, to quit the room, and avoid further hindrance to business.” Bulstrode, after a moment’s hesitation, took his hat from the floor and slowly rose, but he grasped the corner of the chair so totteringly that Lydgate felt sure there was not strength enough in him to walk away without support. What could he do? He could not see a man sink close to him for want of help. He rose and gave his arm to Bulstrode, and in that way led him out of the room;
Ch. 71 · 📍 [[Manor]]
You don’t believe that Mr. Lydgate is guilty of anything base? I will not believe it. Let us find out the truth and clear him!
Chapters 72–82
Ch. 72 · 📍 [[the Hospital]] · Two days afterwards
Dorothea Tertius Lydgate Mr. Bulstrode
Now that I am not to have the land, James, I might do as Mr. Bulstrode proposed, and take his place in providing for the Hospital; and I have to consult Mr. Lydgate, to know thoroughly what are the prospects of doing good by keeping up the present plans.
Ch. 73
Tertius Lydgate Mr. Bulstrode Raffles
Bulstrode had been in dread of scandalous disclosures on the part of Raffles.
Ch. 73 · 📍 Middlemarch · Already
Already there had been abundant signs which had hitherto puzzled him, that just when he had been paying off his debts and getting cheerfully on his feet, the townsmen were avoiding him or looking strangely at him, and in two instances it came to his knowledge that patients of his had called in another practitioner. The reasons were too plain now. The general black-balling had begun.
Ch. 73 · 📍 Middlemarch · Already when he was re-entering the town
he was setting his mind on remaining in Middlemarch in spite of the worst that could be done against him.
Ch. 73
he resolved not to shrink from showing to the full his sense of obligation to Bulstrode.
Ch. 74 · 📍 [[Mr. Vincy’s warehouse]]
Mrs. Bulstrode Mr. Vincy Mr. Bulstrode
He told her everything, very inartificially, in slow fragments, making her aware that the scandal went much beyond proof, especially as to the end of Raffles.
Ch. 74
The man whose prosperity she had shared through nearly half a life, and who had unvaryingly cherished her—now that punishment had befallen him it was not possible to her in any sense to forsake him.
Ch. 74 · eight o’clock in the evening
His confession was silent, and her promise of faithfulness was silent.
Ch. 74
It’s a breakdown blow, and it damages Lydgate as much as Bulstrode.
Ch. 75 · In this brief interval of calm
Rosamond had a gleam of returning cheerfulness when the house was freed from the threatening figure, and when all the disagreeable creditors were paid.
Ch. 75 · 📍 Middlemarch · within the next few weeks
Will Ladislaw Tertius Lydgate Rosamond
It came shortly before the memorable meeting at the town-hall, and was nothing less than a letter from Will Ladislaw to Lydgate, which turned indeed chiefly on his new interest in plans of colonization, but mentioned incidentally, that he might find it necessary to pay a visit to Middlemarch within the next few weeks—a very pleasant necessity, he said, almost as good as holidays to a schoolboy.
Ch. 75 · a few days after the meeting
Rosamond Tertius Lydgate Chichely
But all the invitations were declined, and the last answer came into Lydgate’s hands.
Ch. 75
Rosamond Mr. Vincy Mr. Bulstrode Tertius Lydgate
“Stay, stay, Lucy,” said Mr. Vincy. “Have you heard nothing about your uncle Bulstrode, Rosamond?” “No, papa,” said the poor thing, feeling as if trouble were not anything she had before experienced, but some invisible power with an iron grasp that made her soul faint within her. Her father told her everything, saying at the end, “It’s better for you to know, my dear. I think Lydgate must leave the town. Things have gone against him. I dare say he couldn’t help it. I don’t accuse him of any harm,” said Mr. Vincy.
Ch. 75 · 📍 Middlemarch · that evening
He had even opened his lips, when Rosamond, letting her hands fall, looked at him and said— “Surely, Tertius—” “Well?” “Surely now at last you have given up the idea of staying in Middlemarch. I cannot go on living here. Let us go to London. Papa, and every one else, says you had better go. Whatever misery I have to put up with, it will be easier away from here.” Lydgate felt miserably jarred. Instead of that critical outpouring for which he had prepared himself with effort, here was the old round to be gone through again. He could not bear it. With a quick change of countenance he rose and went out of the room.
Ch. 76 · 📍 Middlemarch · Some days later
he stated that he had resumed his arrangements for quitting Middlemarch
Ch. 76 · 📍 [[Lowick Manor]] · Some days later
And he told her everything, from the time when, under the pressure of his difficulties, he unwillingly made his first application to Bulstrode
Ch. 76 · 📍 [[Lowick Manor]]
And she has set her mind against staying. She wishes to go.
Ch. 76 · 📍 [[Lowick Manor]]
No—let the new Hospital be joined with the old Infirmary, and everything go on as it might have done if I had never come.
Ch. 76 · 📍 [[Lowick Manor]]
Dorothea Tertius Lydgate Rosamond
You will do me another great kindness, then, and come to see my wife?
Ch. 76 · 📍 [[Lowick Manor]] · the next day
Dorothea Tertius Lydgate Mr. Bulstrode
She enclosed a check for a thousand pounds, and determined to take the letter with her the next day when she went to see Rosamond.
Ch. 77 · this morning
Dorothea Rosamond Will Ladislaw
Seated with his back towards her on a sofa which stood against the wall on a line with the door by which she had entered, she saw Will Ladislaw: close by him and turned towards him with a flushed tearfulness which gave a new brilliancy to her face sat Rosamond, her bonnet hanging back, while Will leaning towards her clasped both her upraised hands in his and spoke with low-toned fervor.
Ch. 78
Will Ladislaw Dorothea Rosamond
“I never had a preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman’s living.”
Ch. 78
And then Will went out of the house, Martha never knowing that he had been in.
Ch. 78 · After he was gone
After he was gone, Rosamond tried to get up from her seat, but fell back fainting.
Ch. 78 · about half-past five
Clinging to him she fell into hysterical sobbings and cries, and for the next hour he did nothing but soothe and tend her.
Ch. 79
I thought it better to tell you that your name is mixed up with the disclosures,” said Lydgate
Ch. 79
in the moment when he was learning that it was Lydgate’s misfortune to have accepted it.
Ch. 79
Mrs. Casaubon has been the one person to come forward and say that she had no belief in any of the suspicions against me.”
Ch. 80 · 📍 Middlemarch · at eleven o’clock
Nevertheless at eleven o’clock she was walking towards Middlemarch, having made up her mind that she would make as quietly and unnoticeably as possible her second attempt to see and save Rosamond.
Ch. 81 · to-day
Tertius Lydgate Dorothea Mr. Bulstrode
“Yes, the check is going to Bulstrode to-day.”
Ch. 81 · The day before yesterday
Dorothea Rosamond Tertius Lydgate Mr. Bulstrode Raffles Mr. Farebrother Mr. Brooke Sir James Chettam
The truth is, he knew nothing of this man Raffles, or that there were any bad secrets about him; and he thought that Mr. Bulstrode offered him the money because he repented, out of kindness, of having refused it before. All his anxiety about his patient was to treat him rightly, and he was a little uncomfortable that the case did not end as he had expected; but he thought then and still thinks that there may have been no wrong in it on any one’s part. And I have told Mr. Farebrother, and Mr. Brooke, and Sir James Chettam: they all believe in your husband.
Ch. 81 · yesterday
Rosamond Will Ladislaw Dorothea
He said he could never explain to you—because of me. He said you could never think well of him again. But now I have told you, and he cannot reproach me any more.”
Ch. 82 · that evening
Rosamond Dorothea Will Ladislaw
I have told Mrs. Casaubon. She is not under any mistake about you. I told her because she came to see me and was very kind.
Chapters 83–86
Ch. 83 · 📍 [[Lowick]] · On the second morning after Dorothea’s visit to Rosamond
You know—every one knows now—a painful story about my parentage.
Ch. 83 · 📍 [[Lowick]] · On the second morning after Dorothea’s visit to Rosamond
I did not choose to accept an income from such a source.
Ch. 83 · 📍 [[Lowick]] · On the second morning after Dorothea’s visit to Rosamond
“I don’t doubt you any longer,” said Dorothea, putting out her hand;
Ch. 83 · 📍 [[Lowick]] · On the second morning after Dorothea’s visit to Rosamond
It was never known which lips were the first to move towards the other lips; but they kissed tremblingly, and then they moved apart.
Ch. 83 · 📍 [[Lowick]] · On the second morning after Dorothea’s visit to Rosamond
“We could live quite well on my own fortune—it is too much—seven hundred a-year—I want so little—no new clothes—and I will learn what everything costs.”
Ch. 84 · Yesterday
“Dorothea is going to be married again, you know,” said Mr. Brooke, nodding towards Celia
Ch. 84 · In three weeks
“But this is what I am going to do. I have promised to marry Mr. Ladislaw; and I am going to marry him.”
Ch. 85 · 📍 Middlemarch
This was the consciousness that Bulstrode was withering under while he made his preparations for departing from Middlemarch, and going to end his stricken life in that sad refuge, the indifference of new faces.
Ch. 85
It is my intention not to sell the land I possess in this neighborhood, but to leave it to you as a safe provision.
Ch. 85
Tertius Lydgate Mr. Bulstrode Dorothea
Mr. Lydgate has virtually rejected any further service from me. He has returned the thousand pounds which I lent him. Mrs. Casaubon advanced him the sum for that purpose.
Ch. 85 · 📍 [[Stone Court]]
Mr. Bulstrode Mrs. Bulstrode Caleb Garth Fred Vincy
Garth once thought of undertaking the management of Stone Court in order to place your nephew Fred there.
Ch. 85 · 📍 [[Stone Court]]
Mrs. Bulstrode Caleb Garth Fred Vincy
Yes, it would,” said Mrs. Bulstrode, with some return of energy. “Poor Walter is so cast down; I would try anything in my power to do him some good before I go away.
Ch. 86 · 📍 [[Stone Court]]
Caleb Garth Fred Vincy Mr. Bulstrode
What do you think of Fred going to live at Stone Court, and managing the land there?
Ch. 86
Some years after his marriage he told Mary that his happiness was half owing to Farebrother, who gave him a strong pull-up at the right moment.
Ch. 86 · 📍 [[Stone Court]] · gradually
Fred never became rich—his hopefulness had not led him to expect that; but he gradually saved enough to become owner of the stock and furniture at Stone Court
Ch. 86 · when he was only fifty
Lydgate’s hair never became white. He died when he was only fifty, leaving his wife and children provided for by a heavy insurance on his life.
Ch. 86 · afterwards
Rosamond afterwards married an elderly and wealthy physician, who took kindly to her four children.
Ch. 86
Dorothea has a little boy. And you will not let me go and see her. And I am sure she wants to see me.
Ch. 86 · after this
Sir James Chettam Dorothea Will Ladislaw
Such being the bent of Celia’s heart, it was inevitable that Sir James should consent to a reconciliation with Dorothea and her husband.
Ch. 86
Mr. Brooke [[Dorotheasson]]
Mr. Brooke lived to a good old age, and his estate was inherited by Dorothea’s son
Undated
Ch. 1
they had both been educated, since they were about twelve years old and had lost their parents, on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition.
Ch. 1 · 📍 [[Tipton Grange]] · hardly a year since
It was hardly a year since they had come to live at Tipton Grange with their uncle
Ch. 1
So Miss Brooke presided in her uncle’s household, and did not at all dislike her new authority, with the homage that belonged to it.
Ch. 2
“Thank you, you are very good. I mean to give up riding. I shall not ride any more,” said Dorothea
Ch. 3 · Before he left the next morning
he felt the disadvantage of loneliness, the need of that cheerful companionship with which the presence of youth can lighten or vary the serious toils of maturity.
Ch. 3 · It had now entered Dorothea’s mind
It had now entered Dorothea’s mind that Mr. Casaubon might wish to make her his wife
Ch. 3 · that day
Sir James Chettam Dorothea Lovegood
Sir James saw all the plans, and took one away to consult upon with Lovegood.
Ch. 3 · Meanwhile
Sir James Chettam Dorothea Lovegood
he had already entered with much practical ability into Lovegood’s estimates, and was charmingly docile. She proposed to build a couple of cottages, and transfer two families from their old cabins
Ch. 4
Mr. Casaubon Dorothea Mr. Brooke
However, the long and the short of it is, that he has asked my permission to make you an offer of marriage—of marriage, you know,” said Mr. Brooke
Ch. 4
It is impossible that I should ever marry Sir James Chettam,” said Dorothea.
Ch. 5
To be accepted by you as your husband and the earthly guardian of your welfare, I should regard as the highest of providential gifts.
Ch. 5 · After dinner
I am very grateful to you for loving me, and thinking me worthy to be your wife.
Ch. 5 · Later in the evening
Later in the evening she followed her uncle into the library to give him the letter, that he might send it in the morning.
Ch. 5 · Before he left the next day
Before he left the next day it had been decided that the marriage should take place within six weeks.
Ch. 6 · in six weeks
She is engaged to marry Mr. Casaubon,” said Celia, resorting, as usual, to the simplest statement of fact, and enjoying this opportunity of speaking to the Rector’s wife alone.
Ch. 6 · 📍 [[Freshitt Hall]]
Mrs. Cadwallader Sir James Chettam Dorothea Mr. Casaubon
Very well. She is engaged to be married.” Mrs. Cadwallader paused a few moments, observing the deeply hurt expression in her friend’s face, which he was trying to conceal by a nervous smile, while he whipped his boot; but she soon added, “Engaged to Casaubon.”
Ch. 6 · after Sir James had ridden rather fast for half an hour
Mrs. Cadwallader Sir James Chettam Celia
It followed that Mrs. Cadwallader must decide on another match for Sir James, and having made up her mind that it was to be the younger Miss Brooke, there could not have been a more skilful move towards the success of her plan than her hint to the baronet that he had made an impression on Celia’s heart.
Ch. 7 · 📍 [[the Grange]] · one day
Mr. Brooke Dorothea Mr. Casaubon
it is wonderful that she should have liked him. However, the match is good. I should have been travelling out of my brief to have hindered it, let Mrs. Cadwallader say what she will.
Ch. 8 · 📍 [[Rectory]]
Sir James Chettam Humphrey Cadwallader Dorothea Mr. Casaubon
Clearly, there would be no interference with Miss Brooke’s marriage through Mr. Cadwallader;
Ch. 8
It was a sign of his good disposition that he did not slacken at all in his intention of carrying out Dorothea’s design of the cottages.
Ch. 9 · 📍 [[Lowick]] · In the beginning of his career
In the beginning of his career, Mr. Casaubon had only held the living, but the death of his brother had put him in possession of the manor also.
Ch. 9 · 📍 [[Heidelberg]] · On leaving Rugby
On leaving Rugby he declined to go to an English university, where I would gladly have placed him, and chose what I must consider the anomalous course of studying at Heidelberg.
Ch. 9 · for a year or so
Yes; I have agreed to furnish him with moderate supplies for a year or so; he asks no more. I shall let him be tried by the test of freedom.
Ch. 10 · 📍 [[Continent]] · only six days afterwards
only six days afterwards Mr. Casaubon mentioned that his young relative had started for the Continent
Ch. 10 · 📍 [[Rome]] · Not long after that dinner-party
Not long after that dinner-party she had become Mrs. Casaubon, and was on her way to Rome.
Ch. 11 · 📍 [[Stone Court]] · to-morrow
This question led to an adjustment, for Rosamond had set her mind on that particular ride.
Ch. 12 · 📍 [[Stone Court]] · this very morning
Jane Waule Fred Vincy Peter Featherstone
And it’s openly said that young Vincy has raised money on his expectations.
Ch. 12 · 📍 [[Stone Court]] · last night
has made his will and parted his property equal between such kin as he’s friends with
Ch. 12 · 📍 [[Stone Court]]
Peter Featherstone Fred Vincy Mr. Bulstrode
You bring me a letter from Bulstrode saying he doesn’t believe you’ve been cracking and promising to pay your debts out o’ my land, and then, if there’s any scrape you’ve got into, we’ll see if I can’t back you a bit.
Ch. 12 · 📍 [[Stone Court]] · this morning
He reached the whip before she did, and turned to present it to her. She bowed and looked at him: he of course was looking at her, and their eyes met with that peculiar meeting
Ch. 13 · 📍 [[new hospital]]
I shall rejoice to furnish your zeal with fuller opportunities,” Mr. Bulstrode answered; “I mean, by confiding to you the superintendence of my new hospital, should a maturer knowledge favor that issue
Ch. 13 · 📍 [[old infirmary]]
With regard to the old infirmary, we have gained the initial point—I mean your election.
Ch. 13
I have an objection. I am by no means sure that your son, in his recklessness and ignorance—I will use no severer word—has not tried to raise money by holding out his future prospects
Ch. 13 · to-morrow
I will reflect a little, Vincy. I will mention the subject to Harriet. I shall probably send you a letter.
Ch. 14 · early the next morning
At last, Mr. Featherstone eyed him again over his spectacles and presented him with a little sheaf of notes: Fred could see distinctly that there were but five
Ch. 14
Fred Vincy Mr. Bulstrode Peter Featherstone
Fred carried the letter to the fire, and thrust the poker through it with much zest.
Ch. 14
“I never shall be good for anything, Mary, if you will not say that you love me—if you will not promise to marry me—I mean, when I am able to marry.” “If I did love you, I would not marry you: I would certainly not promise ever to marry you.”
Ch. 14
“Fred, you have always been so good, so generous to me. I am not ungrateful. But never speak to me in that way again.”
Ch. 14 · When he got home
When he got home, he gave four of the twenties to his mother, asking her to keep them for him. “I don’t want to spend that money, mother. I want it to pay a debt with. So keep it safe away from my fingers.”