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"
Look
here
!
all
this
is
about
a
landlord
not
a
hundred
miles
from
Middlemarch
,
who
receives
his
own
rents
.
They
say
he
is
the
most
retrogressive
man
in
the
county
.
I
think
you
must
have
taught
them
that
word
in
the
‘
Pioneer
.
’
"
"
Oh
,
that
is
Keek
—
an
illiterate
fellow
,
you
know
.
Retrogressive
,
now
!
Come
,
that
’
s
capital
.
He
thinks
it
means
destructive
:
they
want
to
make
me
out
a
destructive
,
you
know
,
"
said
Mr
.
Brooke
,
with
that
cheerfulness
which
is
usually
sustained
by
an
adversary
’
s
ignorance
.
"
I
think
he
knows
the
meaning
of
the
word
.
Here
is
a
sharp
stroke
or
two
.
If
we
had
to
describe
a
man
who
is
retrogressive
in
the
most
evil
sense
of
the
word
—
we
should
say
,
he
is
one
who
would
dub
himself
a
reformer
of
our
constitution
,
while
every
interest
for
which
he
is
immediately
responsible
is
going
to
decay
:
a
philanthropist
who
cannot
bear
one
rogue
to
be
hanged
,
but
does
not
mind
five
honest
tenants
being
half
-
starved
:
a
man
who
shrieks
at
corruption
,
and
keeps
his
farms
at
rack
-
rent
:
who
roars
himself
red
at
rotten
boroughs
,
and
does
not
mind
if
every
field
on
his
farms
has
a
rotten
gate
:
a
man
very
open
-
hearted
to
Leeds
and
Manchester
,
no
doubt
;
he
would
give
any
number
of
representatives
who
will
pay
for
their
seats
out
of
their
own
pockets
:
what
he
objects
to
giving
,
is
a
little
return
on
rent
-
days
to
help
a
tenant
to
buy
stock
,
or
an
outlay
on
repairs
to
keep
the
weather
out
at
a
tenant
’
s
barn
-
door
or
make
his
house
look
a
little
less
like
an
Irish
cottier
’
s
.
But
we
all
know
the
wag
’
s
definition
of
a
philanthropist
:
a
man
whose
charity
increases
directly
as
the
square
of
the
distance
.
And
so
on
.
All
the
rest
is
to
show
what
sort
of
legislator
a
philanthropist
is
likely
to
make
,
"
ended
the
Rector
,
throwing
down
the
paper
,
and
clasping
his
hands
at
the
back
of
his
head
,
while
he
looked
at
Mr
.
Brooke
with
an
air
of
amused
neutrality
.
"
Come
,
that
’
s
rather
good
,
you
know
,
"
said
Mr
.
Brooke
,
taking
up
the
paper
and
trying
to
bear
the
attack
as
easily
as
his
neighbor
did
,
but
coloring
and
smiling
rather
nervously
;
"
that
about
roaring
himself
red
at
rotten
boroughs
—
I
never
made
a
speech
about
rotten
boroughs
in
my
life
.
And
as
to
roaring
myself
red
and
that
kind
of
thing
—
these
men
never
understand
what
is
good
satire
.
Satire
,
you
know
,
should
be
true
up
to
a
certain
point
.
I
recollect
they
said
that
in
‘
The
Edinburgh
’
somewhere
—
it
must
be
true
up
to
a
certain
point
.
"
"
Well
,
that
is
really
a
hit
about
the
gates
,
"
said
Sir
James
,
anxious
to
tread
carefully
.
"
Dagley
complained
to
me
the
other
day
that
he
hadn
’
t
got
a
decent
gate
on
his
farm
.
Garth
has
invented
a
new
pattern
of
gate
—
I
wish
you
would
try
it
.
One
ought
to
use
some
of
one
’
s
timber
in
that
way
.
"
"
You
go
in
for
fancy
farming
,
you
know
,
Chettam
,
"
said
Mr
.
Brooke
,
appearing
to
glance
over
the
columns
of
the
"
Trumpet
.
"
"
That
’
s
your
hobby
,
and
you
don
’
t
mind
the
expense
.
"
"
I
thought
the
most
expensive
hobby
in
the
world
was
standing
for
Parliament
,
"
said
Mrs
.
Cadwallader
.
"
They
said
the
last
unsuccessful
candidate
at
Middlemarch
—
Giles
,
wasn
’
t
his
name
?
—
spent
ten
thousand
pounds
and
failed
because
he
did
not
bribe
enough
.
What
a
bitter
reflection
for
a
man
!
"
"
Somebody
was
saying
,
"
said
the
Rector
,
laughingly
,
"
that
East
Retford
was
nothing
to
Middlemarch
,
for
bribery
.
"
