Middlemarch - 64

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CHAPTER LXIV.  1st Gent. Where lies the power, there let the blame lie too. 2d Gent. Nay, power is relative; you cannot fright    The coming pest with border fortresses,    Or catch your carp with subtle argument.    All force is twain in one: cause is not cause    Unless effect be there; and action’s self    Must needs contain a passive. So command    Exists but with obedience. Even if Lydgate had been inclined to be quite open about his affairs, he knew that it would have hardly been in Mr. Farebrother’s power to give him the help