Middlemarch - 68

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CHAPTER LXVIII.  What suit of grace hath Virtue to put onIf Vice shall wear as good, and do as well?If Wrong, if Craft, if IndiscretionAct as fair parts with ends as laudable?Which all this mighty volume of eventsThe world, the universal map of deeds,Strongly controls, and proves from all descents,That the directest course still best succeeds.For should not grave and learn’d ExperienceThat looks with the eyes of all the world beside,And with all ages holds intelligence,Go safer than Deceit without a guide!—DANIEL: Musophilus. That change of plan and shifting of interest which Bulstrode stated or betrayed in his conversation with