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"
You
are
aware
,
I
suppose
,
that
it
is
not
the
coroner
’
s
business
to
conduct
the
post
-
mortem
,
but
only
to
take
the
evidence
of
the
medical
witness
?
"
said
Mr
.
Chichely
,
with
some
scorn
.
"
Who
is
often
almost
as
ignorant
as
the
coroner
himself
,
"
said
Lydgate
.
"
Questions
of
medical
jurisprudence
ought
not
to
be
left
to
the
chance
of
decent
knowledge
in
a
medical
witness
,
and
the
coroner
ought
not
to
be
a
man
who
will
believe
that
strychnine
will
destroy
the
coats
of
the
stomach
if
an
ignorant
practitioner
happens
to
tell
him
so
.
"
Lydgate
had
really
lost
sight
of
the
fact
that
Mr
.
Chichely
was
his
Majesty
’
s
coroner
,
and
ended
innocently
with
the
question
,
"
Don
’
t
you
agree
with
me
,
Dr
.
Sprague
?
"
"
To
a
certain
extent
—
with
regard
to
populous
districts
,
and
in
the
metropolis
,
"
said
the
Doctor
.
"
But
I
hope
it
will
be
long
before
this
part
of
the
country
loses
the
services
of
my
friend
Chichely
,
even
though
it
might
get
the
best
man
in
our
profession
to
succeed
him
.
I
am
sure
Vincy
will
agree
with
me
.
"
"
Yes
,
yes
,
give
me
a
coroner
who
is
a
good
coursing
man
,
"
said
Mr
.
Vincy
,
jovially
.
"
And
in
my
opinion
,
you
’
re
safest
with
a
lawyer
.
Nobody
can
know
everything
.
Most
things
are
‘
visitation
of
God
.
’
And
as
to
poisoning
,
why
,
what
you
want
to
know
is
the
law
.
Come
,
shall
we
join
the
ladies
?
"
Lydgate
’
s
private
opinion
was
that
Mr
.
Chichely
might
be
the
very
coroner
without
bias
as
to
the
coats
of
the
stomach
,
but
he
had
not
meant
to
be
personal
.
This
was
one
of
the
difficulties
of
moving
in
good
Middlemarch
society
:
it
was
dangerous
to
insist
on
knowledge
as
a
qualification
for
any
salaried
office
.
Fred
Vincy
had
called
Lydgate
a
prig
,
and
now
Mr
.
Chichely
was
inclined
to
call
him
prick
-
eared
;
especially
when
,
in
the
drawing
-
room
,
he
seemed
to
be
making
himself
eminently
agreeable
to
Rosamond
,
whom
he
had
easily
monopolized
in
a
tete
-
a
-
tete
,
since
Mrs
.
Vincy
herself
sat
at
the
tea
-
table
.
She
resigned
no
domestic
function
to
her
daughter
;
and
the
matron
’
s
blooming
good
-
natured
face
,
with
the
two
volatile
pink
strings
floating
from
her
fine
throat
,
and
her
cheery
manners
to
husband
and
children
,
was
certainly
among
the
great
attractions
of
the
Vincy
house
—
attractions
which
made
it
all
the
easier
to
fall
in
love
with
the
daughter
.
The
tinge
of
unpretentious
,
inoffensive
vulgarity
in
Mrs
.
Vincy
gave
more
effect
to
Rosamond
’
s
refinement
,
which
was
beyond
what
Lydgate
had
expected
.
Certainly
,
small
feet
and
perfectly
turned
shoulders
aid
the
impression
of
refined
manners
,
and
the
right
thing
said
seems
quite
astonishingly
right
when
it
is
accompanied
with
exquisite
curves
of
lip
and
eyelid
.
And
Rosamond
could
say
the
right
thing
;
for
she
was
clever
with
that
sort
of
cleverness
which
catches
every
tone
except
the
humorous
.
Happily
she
never
attempted
to
joke
,
and
this
perhaps
was
the
most
decisive
mark
of
her
cleverness
.
She
and
Lydgate
readily
got
into
conversation
.
He
regretted
that
he
had
not
heard
her
sing
the
other
day
at
Stone
Court
.
The
only
pleasure
he
allowed
himself
during
the
latter
part
of
his
stay
in
Paris
was
to
go
and
hear
music
.
