Middlemarch - 84

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CHAPTER LXXXIV.  “Though it be songe of old and yonge,    That I sholde be to blame,Theyrs be the charge, that spoke so large    In hurtynge of my name.”—The Not-Browne Mayde. It was just after the Lords had thrown out the Reform Bill: that explains how Mr. Cadwallader came to be walking on the slope of the lawn near the great conservatory at Freshitt Hall, holding the “Times” in his hands behind him, while he talked with a trout-fisher’s dispassionateness about the prospects of the country to Sir James Chettam. Mrs. Cadwallader, the Dowager Lady Chettam, and Celia were