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The
next
day
,
Mr
.
Casaubon
received
the
following
answer
from
Will
Ladislaw
:
—
"
DEAR
MR
.
CASAUBON
—
I
have
given
all
due
consideration
to
your
letter
of
yesterday
,
but
I
am
unable
to
take
precisely
your
view
of
our
mutual
position
.
With
the
fullest
acknowledgment
of
your
generous
conduct
to
me
in
the
past
,
I
must
still
maintain
that
an
obligation
of
this
kind
cannot
fairly
fetter
me
as
you
appear
to
expect
that
it
should
.
Granted
that
a
benefactor
’
s
wishes
may
constitute
a
claim
;
there
must
always
be
a
reservation
as
to
the
quality
of
those
wishes
.
They
may
possibly
clash
with
more
imperative
considerations
.
Or
a
benefactor
’
s
veto
might
impose
such
a
negation
on
a
man
’
s
life
that
the
consequent
blank
might
be
more
cruel
than
the
benefaction
was
generous
.
I
am
merely
using
strong
illustrations
.
In
the
present
case
I
am
unable
to
take
your
view
of
the
bearing
which
my
acceptance
of
occupation
—
not
enriching
certainly
,
but
not
dishonorable
—
will
have
on
your
own
position
which
seems
to
me
too
substantial
to
be
affected
in
that
shadowy
manner
.
And
though
I
do
not
believe
that
any
change
in
our
relations
will
occur
(
certainly
none
has
yet
occurred
)
which
can
nullify
the
obligations
imposed
on
me
by
the
past
,
pardon
me
for
not
seeing
that
those
obligations
should
restrain
me
from
using
the
ordinary
freedom
of
living
where
I
choose
,
and
maintaining
myself
by
any
lawful
occupation
I
may
choose
.
Regretting
that
there
exists
this
difference
between
us
as
to
a
relation
in
which
the
conferring
of
benefits
has
been
entirely
on
your
side
—
I
remain
,
yours
with
persistent
obligation
,
WILL
LADISLAW
.
"
Poor
Mr
.
Casaubon
felt
(
and
must
not
we
,
being
impartial
,
feel
with
him
a
little
?
)
that
no
man
had
juster
cause
for
disgust
and
suspicion
than
he
.
Young
Ladislaw
,
he
was
sure
,
meant
to
defy
and
annoy
him
,
meant
to
win
Dorothea
’
s
confidence
and
sow
her
mind
with
disrespect
,
and
perhaps
aversion
,
towards
her
husband
.
Some
motive
beneath
the
surface
had
been
needed
to
account
for
Will
’
s
sudden
change
of
in
rejecting
Mr
.
Casaubon
’
s
aid
and
quitting
his
travels
;
and
this
defiant
determination
to
fix
himself
in
the
neighborhood
by
taking
up
something
so
much
at
variance
with
his
former
choice
as
Mr
.
Brooke
’
s
Middlemarch
projects
,
revealed
clearly
enough
that
the
undeclared
motive
had
relation
to
Dorothea
.
Not
for
one
moment
did
Mr
.
Casaubon
suspect
Dorothea
of
any
doubleness
:
he
had
no
suspicions
of
her
,
but
he
had
(
what
was
little
less
uncomfortable
)
the
positive
knowledge
that
her
tendency
to
form
opinions
about
her
husband
’
s
conduct
was
accompanied
with
a
disposition
to
regard
Will
Ladislaw
favorably
and
be
influenced
by
what
he
said
.
His
own
proud
reticence
had
prevented
him
from
ever
being
undeceived
in
the
supposition
that
Dorothea
had
originally
asked
her
uncle
to
invite
Will
to
his
house
.
And
now
,
on
receiving
Will
’
s
letter
,
Mr
.
Casaubon
had
to
consider
his
duty
.
He
would
never
have
been
easy
to
call
his
action
anything
else
than
duty
;
but
in
this
case
,
contending
motives
thrust
him
back
into
negations
.
Should
he
apply
directly
to
Mr
.
Brooke
,
and
demand
of
that
troublesome
gentleman
to
revoke
his
proposal
?
Or
should
he
consult
Sir
James
Chettam
,
and
get
him
to
concur
in
remonstrance
against
a
step
which
touched
the
whole
family
?
In
either
case
Mr
.
Casaubon
was
aware
that
failure
was
just
as
probable
as
success
.
It
was
impossible
for
him
to
mention
Dorothea
’
s
name
in
the
matter
,
and
without
some
alarming
urgency
Mr
.
Brooke
was
as
likely
as
not
,
after
meeting
all
representations
with
apparent
assent
,
to
wind
up
by
saying
,
"
Never
fear
,
Casaubon
!
Depend
upon
it
,
young
Ladislaw
will
do
you
credit
.
Depend
upon
it
,
I
have
put
my
finger
on
the
right
thing
.
"
And
Mr
.
Casaubon
shrank
nervously
from
communicating
on
the
subject
with
Sir
James
Chettam
,
between
whom
and
himself
there
had
never
been
any
cordiality
,
and
who
would
immediately
think
of
Dorothea
without
any
mention
of
her
.
Poor
Mr
.
Casaubon
was
distrustful
of
everybody
’
s
feeling
towards
him
,
especially
as
a
husband
.
To
let
any
one
suppose
that
he
was
jealous
would
be
to
admit
their
(
suspected
)
view
of
his
disadvantages
:
to
let
them
know
that
he
did
not
find
marriage
particularly
blissful
would
imply
his
conversion
to
their
(
probably
)
earlier
disapproval
.
It
would
be
as
bad
as
letting
Carp
,
and
Brasenose
generally
,
know
how
backward
he
was
in
organizing
the
matter
for
his
"
Key
to
all
Mythologies
.
"
All
through
his
life
Mr
.
Casaubon
had
been
trying
not
to
admit
even
to
himself
the
inward
sores
of
self
-
doubt
and
jealousy
.
And
on
the
most
delicate
of
all
personal
subjects
,
the
habit
of
proud
suspicious
reticence
told
doubly
