Middlemarch - 61

by George Eliot in English Fiction Stories

CHAPTER LXI. “Inconsistencies,” answered Imlac, “cannot both be right, but imputed to man they may both be true.”—Rasselas. The same night, when Mr. Bulstrode returned from a journey to Brassing on business, his good wife met him in the ...Read Moreand drew him into his private sitting-room. “Nicholas,” she said, fixing her honest eyes upon him anxiously, “there has been such a disagreeable man here asking for you—it has made me quite uncomfortable.” “What kind of man, my dear,” said Mr. Bulstrode, dreadfully certain of the answer. “A red-faced man with large whiskers, and most impudent in his manner. He Read Less