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"
Oh
,
you
can
’
t
think
!
"
said
Caleb
,
shaking
his
head
.
"
You
would
like
to
hear
her
speak
,
Susan
.
She
speaks
in
such
plain
words
,
and
a
voice
like
music
.
Bless
me
!
it
reminds
me
of
bits
in
the
‘
Messiah
’
—
‘
and
straightway
there
appeared
a
multitude
of
the
heavenly
host
,
praising
God
and
saying
;
’
it
has
a
tone
with
it
that
satisfies
your
ear
.
"
Caleb
was
very
fond
of
music
,
and
when
he
could
afford
it
went
to
hear
an
oratorio
that
came
within
his
reach
,
returning
from
it
with
a
profound
reverence
for
this
mighty
structure
of
tones
,
which
made
him
sit
meditatively
,
looking
on
the
floor
and
throwing
much
unutterable
language
into
his
outstretched
hands
.
With
this
good
understanding
between
them
,
it
was
natural
that
Dorothea
asked
Mr
.
Garth
to
undertake
any
business
connected
with
the
three
farms
and
the
numerous
tenements
attached
to
Lowick
Manor
;
indeed
,
his
expectation
of
getting
work
for
two
was
being
fast
fulfilled
.
As
he
said
,
"
Business
breeds
.
"
And
one
form
of
business
which
was
beginning
to
breed
just
then
was
the
construction
of
railways
.
A
projected
line
was
to
run
through
Lowick
parish
where
the
cattle
had
hitherto
grazed
in
a
peace
unbroken
by
astonishment
;
and
thus
it
happened
that
the
infant
struggles
of
the
railway
system
entered
into
the
affairs
of
Caleb
Garth
,
and
determined
the
course
of
this
history
with
regard
to
two
persons
who
were
dear
to
him
.
The
submarine
railway
may
have
its
difficulties
;
but
the
bed
of
the
sea
is
not
divided
among
various
landed
proprietors
with
claims
for
damages
not
only
measurable
but
sentimental
.
In
the
hundred
to
which
Middlemarch
belonged
railways
were
as
exciting
a
topic
as
the
Reform
Bill
or
the
imminent
horrors
of
Cholera
,
and
those
who
held
the
most
decided
views
on
the
subject
were
women
and
landholders
.
Women
both
old
and
young
regarded
travelling
by
steam
as
presumptuous
and
dangerous
,
and
argued
against
it
by
saying
that
nothing
should
induce
them
to
get
into
a
railway
carriage
;
while
proprietors
,
differing
from
each
other
in
their
arguments
as
much
as
Mr
.
Solomon
Featherstone
differed
from
Lord
Medlicote
,
were
yet
unanimous
in
the
opinion
that
in
selling
land
,
whether
to
the
Enemy
of
mankind
or
to
a
company
obliged
to
purchase
,
these
pernicious
agencies
must
be
made
to
pay
a
very
high
price
to
landowners
for
permission
to
injure
mankind
.
But
the
slower
wits
,
such
as
Mr
.
Solomon
and
Mrs
.
Waule
,
who
both
occupied
land
of
their
own
,
took
a
long
time
to
arrive
at
this
conclusion
,
their
minds
halting
at
the
vivid
conception
of
what
it
would
be
to
cut
the
Big
Pasture
in
two
,
and
turn
it
into
three
-
cornered
bits
,
which
would
be
"
nohow
;
"
while
accommodation
-
bridges
and
high
payments
were
remote
and
incredible
.
"
The
cows
will
all
cast
their
calves
,
brother
,
"
said
Mrs
.
Waule
,
in
a
tone
of
deep
melancholy
,
"
if
the
railway
comes
across
the
Near
Close
;
and
I
shouldn
’
t
wonder
at
the
mare
too
,
if
she
was
in
foal
.
It
’
s
a
poor
tale
if
a
widow
’
s
property
is
to
be
spaded
away
,
and
the
law
say
nothing
to
it
.
What
’
s
to
hinder
’
em
from
cutting
right
and
left
if
they
begin
?
It
’
s
well
known
,
I
can
’
t
fight
.
"
"
The
best
way
would
be
to
say
nothing
,
and
set
somebody
on
to
send
’
em
away
with
a
flea
in
their
ear
,
when
they
came
spying
and
measuring
,
"
said
Solomon
.
"
Folks
did
that
about
Brassing
,
by
what
I
can
understand
.
It
’
s
all
a
pretence
,
if
the
truth
was
known
,
about
their
being
forced
to
take
one
way
.
Let
’
em
go
cutting
in
another
parish
.
And
I
don
’
t
believe
in
any
pay
to
make
amends
for
bringing
a
lot
of
ruffians
to
trample
your
crops
.
Where
’
s
a
company
’
s
pocket
?
"
"
Brother
Peter
,
God
forgive
him
,
got
money
out
of
a
company
,
"
said
Mrs
.
Waule
.
"
But
that
was
for
the
manganese
.
That
wasn
’
t
for
railways
to
blow
you
to
pieces
right
and
left
.
"
