Middlemarch - 56

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CHAPTER LVI.  “How happy is he born and taughtThat serveth not another’s will;Whose armor is his honest thought,And simple truth his only skill!. . . . . . .This man is freed from servile bandsOf hope to rise or fear to fall;Lord of himself though not of lands;And having nothing yet hath all.”—SIR HENRY WOTTON. Dorothea’s confidence in Caleb Garth’s knowledge, which had begun on her hearing that he approved of her cottages, had grown fast during her stay at Freshitt, Sir James having induced her to take rides over the two estates in company with himself and Caleb, who