Middlemarch - 13

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CHAPTER XIII.  1st Gent. How class your man?—as better than the most,    Or, seeming better, worse beneath that cloak?    As saint or knave, pilgrim or hypocrite? 2d Gent. Nay, tell me how you class your wealth of books    The drifted relics of all time.    As well sort them at once by size and livery:    Vellum, tall copies, and the common calf    Will hardly cover more diversity    Than all your labels cunningly devised    To class your unread authors. In consequence of what he had heard from Fred, Mr. Vincy determined to speak with