Middlemarch - 52

by George Eliot in English Fiction Stories

CHAPTER LII. “His heartThe lowliest duties on itself did lay.”—WORDSWORTH. On that June evening when Mr. Farebrother knew that he was to have the Lowick living, there was joy in the old fashioned parlor, and even the portraits of ...Read Moregreat lawyers seemed to look on with satisfaction. His mother left her tea and toast untouched, but sat with her usual pretty primness, only showing her emotion by that flush in the cheeks and brightness in the eyes which give an old woman a touching momentary identity with her far-off youthful self, and saying decisively— “The greatest comfort, Camden, is Read Less