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There
was
a
melancholy
cadence
in
Dorothea
’
s
voice
as
she
spoke
these
last
words
.
But
she
presently
added
,
more
cheerfully
,
"
Pray
come
to
Lowick
and
tell
us
more
of
this
.
I
will
mention
the
subject
to
Mr
.
Casaubon
I
must
hasten
home
now
.
"
She
did
mention
it
that
evening
,
and
said
that
she
should
like
to
subscribe
two
hundred
a
-
year
—
she
had
seven
hundred
a
-
year
as
the
equivalent
of
her
own
fortune
,
settled
on
her
at
her
marriage
.
Mr
.
Casaubon
made
no
objection
beyond
a
passing
remark
that
the
sum
might
be
disproportionate
in
relation
to
other
good
objects
,
but
when
Dorothea
in
her
ignorance
resisted
that
suggestion
,
he
acquiesced
.
He
did
not
care
himself
about
spending
money
,
and
was
not
reluctant
to
give
it
.
If
he
ever
felt
keenly
any
question
of
money
it
was
through
the
medium
of
another
passion
than
the
love
of
material
property
.
Dorothea
told
him
that
she
had
seen
Lydgate
,
and
recited
the
gist
of
her
conversation
with
him
about
the
Hospital
.
Mr
.
Casaubon
did
not
question
her
further
,
but
he
felt
sure
that
she
had
wished
to
know
what
had
passed
between
Lydgate
and
himself
"
She
knows
that
I
know
,
"
said
the
ever
-
restless
voice
within
;
but
that
increase
of
tacit
knowledge
only
thrust
further
off
any
confidence
between
them
.
He
distrusted
her
affection
;
and
what
loneliness
is
more
lonely
than
distrust
?
It
is
the
humor
of
many
heads
to
extol
the
days
of
their
forefathers
,
and
declaim
against
the
wickedness
of
times
present
.
Which
notwithstanding
they
cannot
handsomely
do
,
without
the
borrowed
help
and
satire
of
times
past
;
condemning
the
vices
of
their
own
times
,
by
the
expressions
of
vices
in
times
which
they
commend
,
which
cannot
but
argue
the
community
of
vice
in
both
.
Horace
,
therefore
,
Juvenal
,
and
Persius
,
were
no
prophets
,
although
their
lines
did
seem
to
indigitate
and
point
at
our
times
.
—
SIR
THOMAS
BROWNE
:
Pseudodoxia
Epidemica
.
That
opposition
to
the
New
Fever
Hospital
which
Lydgate
had
sketched
to
Dorothea
was
,
like
other
oppositions
,
to
be
viewed
in
many
different
lights
.
He
regarded
it
as
a
mixture
of
jealousy
and
dunderheaded
prejudice
.
Mr
.
Bulstrode
saw
in
it
not
only
medical
jealousy
but
a
determination
to
thwart
himself
,
prompted
mainly
by
a
hatred
of
that
vital
religion
of
which
he
had
striven
to
be
an
effectual
lay
representative
—
a
hatred
which
certainly
found
pretexts
apart
from
religion
such
as
were
only
too
easy
to
find
in
the
entanglements
of
human
action
.
These
might
be
called
the
ministerial
views
.
But
oppositions
have
the
illimitable
range
of
objections
at
command
,
which
need
never
stop
short
at
the
boundary
of
knowledge
,
but
can
draw
forever
on
the
vasts
of
ignorance
.
What
the
opposition
in
Middlemarch
said
about
the
New
Hospital
and
its
administration
had
certainly
a
great
deal
of
echo
in
it
,
for
heaven
has
taken
care
that
everybody
shall
not
be
an
originator
;
but
there
were
differences
which
represented
every
social
shade
between
the
polished
moderation
of
Dr
.
Minchin
and
the
trenchant
assertion
of
Mrs
.
Dollop
,
the
landlady
of
the
Tankard
in
Slaughter
Lane
.
Mrs
.
Dollop
became
more
and
more
convinced
by
her
own
asseveration
,
that
Dr
.
Lydgate
meant
to
let
the
people
die
in
the
Hospital
,
if
not
to
poison
them
,
for
the
sake
of
cutting
them
up
without
saying
by
your
leave
or
with
your
leave
;
for
it
was
a
known
"
fac
"
that
he
had
wanted
to
cut
up
Mrs
.
Goby
,
as
respectable
a
woman
as
any
in
Parley
Street
,
who
had
money
in
trust
before
her
marriage
—
a
poor
tale
for
a
doctor
,
who
if
he
was
good
for
anything
should
know
what
was
the
matter
with
you
before
you
died
,
and
not
want
to
pry
into
your
inside
after
you
were
gone
.
If
that
was
not
reason
,
Mrs
.
Dollop
wished
to
know
what
was
;
but
there
was
a
prevalent
feeling
in
her
audience
that
her
opinion
was
a
bulwark
,
and
that
if
it
were
overthrown
there
would
be
no
limits
to
the
cutting
-
up
of
bodies
,
as
had
been
well
seen
in
Burke
and
Hare
with
their
pitch
-
plaisters
—
such
a
hanging
business
as
that
was
not
wanted
in
Middlemarch
!
And
let
it
not
be
supposed
that
opinion
at
the
Tankard
in
Slaughter
Lane
was
unimportant
to
the
medical
profession
:
that
old
authentic
public
-
house
—
the
original
Tankard
,
known
by
the
name
of
Dollop
’
s
—
was
the
resort
of
a
great
Benefit
Club
,
which
had
some
months
before
put
to
the
vote
whether
its
long
-
standing
medical
man
,
"
Doctor
Gambit
,
"
should
not
be
cashiered
in
favor
of
"
this
Doctor
Lydgate
,
"
who
was
capable
of
performing
the
most
astonishing
cures
,
and
rescuing
people
altogether
given
up
by
other
practitioners
.
But
the
balance
had
been
turned
against
Lydgate
by
two
members
,
who
for
some
private
reasons
held
that
this
power
of
resuscitating
persons
as
good
as
dead
was
an
equivocal
recommendation
,
and
might
interfere
with
providential
favors
.
