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"
Piacer
e
poponeVuol
la
sua
stagione
.
"
—
Italian
Proverb
.
Mr
.
Casaubon
,
as
might
be
expected
,
spent
a
great
deal
of
his
time
at
the
Grange
in
these
weeks
,
and
the
hindrance
which
courtship
occasioned
to
the
progress
of
his
great
work
—
the
Key
to
all
Mythologies
—
naturally
made
him
look
forward
the
more
eagerly
to
the
happy
termination
of
courtship
.
But
he
had
deliberately
incurred
the
hindrance
,
having
made
up
his
mind
that
it
was
now
time
for
him
to
adorn
his
life
with
the
graces
of
female
companionship
,
to
irradiate
the
gloom
which
fatigue
was
apt
to
hang
over
the
intervals
of
studious
labor
with
the
play
of
female
fancy
,
and
to
secure
in
this
,
his
culminating
age
,
the
solace
of
female
tendance
for
his
declining
years
.
Hence
he
determined
to
abandon
himself
to
the
stream
of
feeling
,
and
perhaps
was
surprised
to
find
what
an
exceedingly
shallow
rill
it
was
.
As
in
droughty
regions
baptism
by
immersion
could
only
be
performed
symbolically
,
Mr
.
Casaubon
found
that
sprinkling
was
the
utmost
approach
to
a
plunge
which
his
stream
would
afford
him
;
and
he
concluded
that
the
poets
had
much
exaggerated
the
force
of
masculine
passion
.
Nevertheless
,
he
observed
with
pleasure
that
Miss
Brooke
showed
an
ardent
submissive
affection
which
promised
to
fulfil
his
most
agreeable
previsions
of
marriage
.
It
had
once
or
twice
crossed
his
mind
that
possibly
there
,
was
some
deficiency
in
Dorothea
to
account
for
the
moderation
of
his
abandonment
;
but
he
was
unable
to
discern
the
deficiency
,
or
to
figure
to
himself
a
woman
who
would
have
pleased
him
better
;
so
that
there
was
clearly
no
reason
to
fall
back
upon
but
the
exaggerations
of
human
tradition
.
"
Could
I
not
be
preparing
myself
now
to
be
more
useful
?
"
said
Dorothea
to
him
,
one
morning
,
early
in
the
time
of
courtship
;
"
could
I
not
learn
to
read
Latin
and
Greek
aloud
to
you
,
as
Milton
’
s
daughters
did
to
their
father
,
without
understanding
what
they
read
?
"
"
I
fear
that
would
be
wearisome
to
you
,
"
said
Mr
.
Casaubon
,
smiling
;
"
and
,
indeed
,
if
I
remember
rightly
,
the
young
women
you
have
mentioned
regarded
that
exercise
in
unknown
tongues
as
a
ground
for
rebellion
against
the
poet
.
"
"
Yes
;
but
in
the
first
place
they
were
very
naughty
girls
,
else
they
would
have
been
proud
to
minister
to
such
a
father
;
and
in
the
second
place
they
might
have
studied
privately
and
taught
themselves
to
understand
what
they
read
,
and
then
it
would
have
been
interesting
.
I
hope
you
don
’
t
expect
me
to
be
naughty
and
stupid
?
"
"
I
expect
you
to
be
all
that
an
exquisite
young
lady
can
be
in
every
possible
relation
of
life
.
Certainly
it
might
be
a
great
advantage
if
you
were
able
to
copy
the
Greek
character
,
and
to
that
end
it
were
well
to
begin
with
a
little
reading
.
"
Dorothea
seized
this
as
a
precious
permission
.
She
would
not
have
asked
Mr
.
Casaubon
at
once
to
teach
her
the
languages
,
dreading
of
all
things
to
be
tiresome
instead
of
helpful
;
but
it
was
not
entirely
out
of
devotion
to
her
future
husband
that
she
wished
to
know
Latin
and
Creek
.
Those
provinces
of
masculine
knowledge
seemed
to
her
a
standing
-
ground
from
which
all
truth
could
be
seen
more
truly
.
As
it
was
,
she
constantly
doubted
her
own
conclusions
,
because
she
felt
her
own
ignorance
:
how
could
she
be
confident
that
one
-
roomed
cottages
were
not
for
the
glory
of
God
,
when
men
who
knew
the
classics
appeared
to
conciliate
indifference
to
the
cottages
with
zeal
for
the
glory
?
Perhaps
even
Hebrew
might
be
necessary
—
at
least
the
alphabet
and
a
few
roots
—
in
order
to
arrive
at
the
core
of
things
,
and
judge
soundly
on
the
social
duties
of
the
Christian
.
And
she
had
not
reached
that
point
of
renunciation
at
which
she
would
have
been
satisfier
’
with
having
a
wise
husband
:
she
wished
,
poor
child
,
to
be
wise
herself
.
Miss
Brooke
was
certainly
very
naive
with
al
:
her
alleged
cleverness
.
Celia
,
whose
mind
had
never
been
thought
too
powerful
,
saw
the
emptiness
of
other
people
’
s
pretensions
much
more
readily
.
To
have
in
general
but
little
feeling
,
seems
to
be
the
only
security
against
feeling
too
much
on
any
particular
occasion
.
However
,
Mr
.
Casaubon
consented
to
listen
and
teach
for
an
hour
together
,
like
a
schoolmaster
of
little
boys
,
or
rather
like
a
lover
,
to
whom
a
mistress
’
s
elementary
ignorance
and
difficulties
have
a
touching
fitness
.
