Middlemarch - 76

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CHAPTER LXXVI.  To mercy, pity, peace, and love    All pray in their distress,And to these virtues of delight,    Return their thankfulness.. . . . . .For Mercy has a human heart,    Pity a human face;And Love, the human form divine;    And Peace, the human dress.—WILLIAM BLAKE: Songs of Innocence. Some days later, Lydgate was riding to Lowick Manor, in consequence of a summons from Dorothea. The summons had not been unexpected, since it had followed a letter from Mr. Bulstrode, in which he stated that he had resumed his arrangements for quitting Middlemarch, and must remind