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Chapter 3

           Casaubonmadeadignifiedthoughsomewhatsadaudience;bowedintherightplace,andavoidedlookingatanythingdocumentaryasfaraspossible,withoutshowingdisregardorimpatience;mindfulthatthisdesultorinesswasassociatedwiththeinstitutionsofthecountry,andthatthemanwhotookhimonthisseverementalscamperwasnotonlyanamiablehost,butalandholderandcustosrotulorum.WashisenduranceaidedalsobythereflectionthatMr.BrookewastheuncleofDorothea?

           Certainlyheseemedmoreandmorebentonmakinghertalktohim,ondrawingherout,asCeliaremarkedtoherself;andinlookingatherhisfacewasoftenlitupbyasmilelikepalewintrysunshine.Beforeheleftthenextmorning,whiletakingapleasantwalkwithMissBrookealongthegravelledterrace,hehadmentionedtoherthathefeltthedisadvantageofloneliness,theneedofthatcheerfulcompanionshipwithwhichthepresenceofyouthcanlightenorvarytheserioustoilsofmaturity.Andhedeliveredthisstatementwithasmuchcarefulprecisionasifhehadbeenadiplomaticenvoywhosewordswouldbeattendedwithresults.Indeed,Mr.Casaubonwasnotusedtoexpectthatheshouldhavetorepeatorrevisehiscommunicationsofapracticalorpersonalkind.

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