Middlemarch - 05
She was getting away from Tipton and Freshitt, and her own sad liability to tread in the wrong places on her way to the New Jerusalem.
Mr. Brooke sat down in his arm-chair, stretched his legs towards the wood-fire, which had fallen into a wondrous mass of glowing dice between the dogs, and rubbed his hands gently, looking very mildly towards Dorothea, but with a neutral leisurely air, as if he had nothing particular to say. Dorothea closed her pamphlet, as soon as she was aware of her uncle’s presence, and rose as if to go. Usually she would have been interested about her uncle’s merciful errand on behalf of the criminal, but her late agitation had made her absent-minded.
“I came back by Lowick, you know,” said Mr. Brooke, not as if with any intention to arrest her departure, but apparently from his usual tendency to say what he had said before. This fundamental principle of human speech was markedly exhibited in Mr. Brooke. “I lunched there and saw Casaubon’s library, and that kind of thing. There’s a sharp air, driving. Won’t you sit down, my dear? You look cold.”
Dorothea felt quite inclined to accept the invitation. Some times, when her uncle’s easy way of taking things did not happen to be exasperating, it was rather soothing. She threw off her mantle and bonnet, and sat down opposite to him, enjoying the glow, but lifting up her beautiful hands for a screen. They were not thin hands, or small hands; but powerful, feminine, maternal hands. She seemed to be holding them up in propitiation for her passionate desire to know and to think, which in the unfriendly mediums of Tipton and Freshitt had issued in crying and red eyelids.
She bethought herself now of the condemned criminal. “What news have you brought about the sheep-stealer, uncle?”
“What, poor Bunch?—well, it seems we can’t get him off—he is to be hanged.”
Dorothea’s brow took an expression of reprobation and pity.
“Hanged, you know,” said Mr. Brooke, with a quiet nod. “Poor Romilly! he would have helped us. I knew Romilly. Casaubon didn’t know Romilly. He is a little buried in books, you know, Casaubon is.”
“When a man has great studies and is writing a great work, he must of course give up seeing much of the world. How can he go about making acquaintances?”
“That’s true. But a man mopes, you know. I have always been a bachelor too, but I have that sort of disposition that I never moped; it was my way to go about everywhere and take in everything. I never moped: but I can see that Casaubon does, you know. He wants a companion—a companion, you know.”
“It would be a great honor to any one to be his companion,” said Dorothea, energetically.
“You like him, eh?” said Mr. Brooke, without showing any surprise, or other emotion. “Well, now, I’ve known Casaubon ten years, ever since he came to Lowick. But I never got anything out of him—any ideas, you know. However, he is a tiptop man and may be a bishop—that kind of thing, you know, if Peel stays in. And he has a very high opinion of you, my dear.”
Dorothea could not speak.
“The fact is, he has a very high opinion indeed of you. And he speaks uncommonly well—does Casaubon. He has deferred to me, you not being of age. In short, I have promised to speak to you, though I told him I thought there was not much chance. I was bound to tell him that. I said, my niece is very young, and that kind of thing. But I didn’t think it necessary to go into everything. However, the long and the short of it is, that he has asked my permission to make you an offer of marriage—of marriage, you know,” said Mr. Brooke, with his explanatory nod. “I thought it better to tell you, my dear.”
No one could have detected any anxiety in Mr. Brooke’s manner, but he did really wish to know something of his niece’s mind, that, if there were any need for advice, he might give it in time. What feeling he, as a magistrate who had taken in so many ideas, could make room for, was unmixedly kind. Since Dorothea did not speak immediately, he repeated, “I thought it better to tell you, my dear.”
“Thank you, uncle,” said Dorothea, in a clear unwavering tone. “I am very grateful to Mr. Casaubon. If he makes me an offer, I shall accept him. I admire and honor him more than any man I ever saw.”
Mr. Brooke paused a little, and then said in a lingering low tone, “Ah? … Well! He is a good match in some respects. But now, Chettam is a good match. And our land lies together. I shall never interfere against your wishes, my dear. People should have their own way in marriage, and that sort of thing—up to a certain point, you know. I have always said that, up to a certain point. I wish you to marry well; and I have good reason to believe that Chettam wishes to marry you. I mention it, you know.”
“It is impossible that I should ever marry Sir James Chettam,” said Dorothea. “If he thinks of marrying me, he has made a great mistake.”
“That is it, you see. One never knows. I should have thought Chettam was just the sort of man a woman would like, now.”
“Pray do not mention him in that light again, uncle,” said Dorothea, feeling some of her late irritation revive.
Mr. Brooke wondered, and felt that women were an inexhaustible subject of study, since even he at his age was not in a perfect state of scientific prediction about them. Here was a fellow like Chettam with no chance at all.
“Well, but Casaubon, now. There is no hurry—I mean for you. It’s true, every year will tell upon him. He is over five-and-forty, you know. I should say a good seven-and-twenty years older than you. To be sure,—if you like learning and standing, and that sort of thing, we can’t have everything. And his income is good—he has a handsome property independent of the Church—his income is good. Still he is not young, and I must not conceal from you, my dear, that I think his health is not over-strong. I know nothing else against him.”
“I should not wish to have a husband very near my own age,” said Dorothea, with grave decision. “I should wish to have a husband who was above me in judgment and in all knowledge.”
Mr. Brooke repeated his subdued, “Ah?—I thought you had more of your own opinion than most girls. I thought you liked your own opinion—liked it, you know.”
“I cannot imagine myself living without some opinions, but I should wish to have good reasons for them, and a wise man could help me to see which opinions had the best foundation, and would help me to live according to them.”
“Very true. You couldn’t put the thing better—couldn’t put it better, beforehand, you know. But there are oddities in things,” continued Mr. Brooke, whose conscience was really roused to do the best he could for his niece on this occasion. “Life isn’t cast in a mould—not cut out by rule and line, and that sort of thing. I never married myself, and it will be the better for you and yours. The fact is, I never loved any one well enough to put myself into a noose for them. It is a noose, you know. Temper, now. There is temper. And a husband likes to be master.”
“I know that I must expect trials, uncle. Marriage is a state of higher duties. I never thought of it as mere personal ease,” said poor Dorothea.
“Well, you are not fond of show, a great establishment, balls, dinners, that kind of thing. I can see that Casaubon’s ways might suit you better than Chettam’s. And you shall do as you like, my dear. I would not hinder Casaubon; I said so at once; for there is no knowing how anything may turn out. You have not the same tastes as every young lady; and a clergyman and scholar—who may be a bishop—that kind of thing—may suit you better than Chettam. Chettam is a good fellow, a good sound-hearted fellow, you know; but he doesn’t go much into ideas. I did, when I was his age. But Casaubon’s eyes, now. I think he has hurt them a little with too much reading.”
“I should be all the happier, uncle, the more room there was for me to help him,” said Dorothea, ardently.
“You have quite made up your mind, I see. Well, my dear, the fact is, I have a letter for you in my pocket.” Mr. Brooke handed the letter to Dorothea, but as she rose to go away, he added, “There is not too much hurry, my dear. Think about it, you know.”
When Dorothea had left him, he reflected that he had certainly spoken strongly: he had put the risks of marriage before her in a striking manner. It was his duty to do so. But as to pretending to be wise for young people,—no uncle, however much he had travelled in his youth, absorbed the new ideas, and dined with celebrities now deceased, could pretend to judge what sort of marriage would turn out well for a young girl who preferred Casaubon to Chettam. In short, woman was a problem which, since Mr. Brooke’s mind felt blank before it, could be hardly less complicated than the revolutions of an irregular solid.
CHAPTER V.
“Hard students are commonly troubled with gowts, catarrhs, rheums, cachexia, bradypepsia, bad eyes, stone, and collick, crudities, oppilations, vertigo, winds, consumptions, and all such diseases as come by over-much sitting: they are most part lean, dry, ill-colored … and all through immoderate pains and extraordinary studies. If you will not believe the truth of this, look upon great Tostatus and Thomas Aquainas’ works; and tell me whether those men took pains.”—BURTON’S Anatomy of Melancholy, P. I, s. 2.
This was Mr. Casaubon’s letter.
MY DEAR MISS BROOKE,—I have your guardian’s permission to address you on a subject than which I have none more at heart. I am not, I trust, mistaken in the recognition of some deeper correspondence than that of date in the fact that a consciousness of need in my own life had arisen contemporaneously with the possibility of my becoming acquainted with you. For in the first hour of meeting you, I had an impression of your eminent and perhaps exclusive fitness to supply that need (connected, I may say, with such activity of the affections as even the preoccupations of a work too special to be abdicated could not uninterruptedly dissimulate); and each succeeding opportunity for observation has given the impression an added depth by convincing me more emphatically of that fitness which I had preconceived, and thus evoking more decisively those affections to which I have but now referred. Our conversations have, I think, made sufficiently clear to you the tenor of my life and purposes: a tenor unsuited, I am aware, to the commoner order of minds. But I have discerned in you an elevation of thought and a capability of devotedness, which I had hitherto not conceived to be compatible either with the early bloom of youth or with those graces of sex that may be said at once to win and to confer distinction when combined, as they notably are in you, with the mental qualities above indicated. It was, I confess, beyond my hope to meet with this rare combination of elements both solid and attractive, adapted to supply aid in graver labors and to cast a charm over vacant hours; and but for the event of my introduction to you (which, let me again say, I trust not to be superficially coincident with foreshadowing needs, but providentially related thereto as stages towards the completion of a life’s plan), I should presumably have gone on to the last without any attempt to lighten my solitariness by a matrimonial union.
Such, my dear Miss Brooke, is the accurate statement of my feelings; and I rely on your kind indulgence in venturing now to ask you how far your own are of a nature to confirm my happy presentiment. To be accepted by you as your husband and the earthly guardian of your welfare, I should regard as the highest of providential gifts. In return I can at least offer you an affection hitherto unwasted, and the faithful consecration of a life which, however short in the sequel, has no backward pages whereon, if you choose to turn them, you will find records such as might justly cause you either bitterness or shame. I await the expression of your sentiments with an anxiety which it would be the part of wisdom (were it possible) to divert by a more arduous labor than usual. But in this order of experience I am still young, and in looking forward to an unfavorable possibility I cannot but feel that resignation to solitude will be more difficult after the temporary illumination of hope.
In any case, I shall remain,
Yours with sincere devotion,
EDWARD CASAUBON.
Dorothea trembled while she read this letter; then she fell on her knees, buried her face, and sobbed. She could not pray: under the rush of solemn emotion in which thoughts became vague and images floated uncertainly, she could but cast herself, with a childlike sense of reclining, in the lap of a divine consciousness which sustained her own. She remained in that attitude till it was time to dress for dinner.
How could it occur to her to examine the letter, to look at it critically as a profession of love? Her whole soul was possessed by the fact that a fuller life was opening before her: she was a neophyte about to enter on a higher grade of initiation. She was going to have room for the energies which stirred uneasily under the dimness and pressure of her own ignorance and the petty peremptoriness of the world’s habits.
Now she would be able to devote herself to large yet definite duties; now she would be allowed to live continually in the light of a mind that she could reverence. This hope was not unmixed with the glow of proud delight—the joyous maiden surprise that she was chosen by the man whom her admiration had chosen. All Dorothea’s passion was transfused through a mind struggling towards an ideal life; the radiance of her transfigured girlhood fell on the first object that came within its level. The impetus with which inclination became resolution was heightened by those little events of the day which had roused her discontent with the actual conditions of her life.
After dinner, when Celia was playing an “air, with variations,” a small kind of tinkling which symbolized the aesthetic part of the young ladies’ education, Dorothea went up to her room to answer Mr. Casaubon’s letter. Why should she defer the answer? She wrote it over three times, not because she wished to change the wording, but because her hand was unusually uncertain, and she could not bear that Mr. Casaubon should think her handwriting bad and illegible. She piqued herself on writing a hand in which each letter was distinguishable without any large range of conjecture, and she meant to make much use of this accomplishment, to save Mr. Casaubon’s eyes. Three times she wrote.
MY DEAR MR. CASAUBON,—I am very grateful to you for loving me, and thinking me worthy to be your wife. I can look forward to no better happiness than that which would be one with yours. If I said more, it would only be the same thing written out at greater length, for I cannot now dwell on any other thought than that I may be through life
Yours devotedly,
DOROTHEA BROOKE.
Later in the evening she followed her uncle into the library to give him the letter, that he might send it in the morning. He was surprised, but his surprise only issued in a few moments’ silence, during which he pushed about various objects on his writing-table, and finally stood with his back to the fire, his glasses on his nose, looking at the address of Dorothea’s letter.
“Have you thought enough about this, my dear?” he said at last.
“There was no need to think long, uncle. I know of nothing to make me vacillate. If I changed my mind, it must be because of something important and entirely new to me.”
“Ah!—then you have accepted him? Then Chettam has no chance? Has Chettam offended you—offended you, you know? What is it you don’t like in Chettam?”
“There is nothing that I like in him,” said Dorothea, rather impetuously.
Mr. Brooke threw his head and shoulders backward as if some one had thrown a light missile at him. Dorothea immediately felt some self-rebuke, and said—
“I mean in the light of a husband. He is very kind, I think—really very good about the cottages. A well-meaning man.”
“But you must have a scholar, and that sort of thing? Well, it lies a little in our family. I had it myself—that love of knowledge, and going into everything—a little too much—it took me too far; though that sort of thing doesn’t often run in the female-line; or it runs underground like the rivers in Greece, you know—it comes out in the sons. Clever sons, clever mothers. I went a good deal into that, at one time. However, my dear, I have always said that people should do as they like in these things, up to a certain point. I couldn’t, as your guardian, have consented to a bad match. But Casaubon stands well: his position is good. I am afraid Chettam will be hurt, though, and Mrs. Cadwallader will blame me.”
That evening, of course, Celia knew nothing of what had happened. She attributed Dorothea’s abstracted manner, and the evidence of further crying since they had got home, to the temper she had been in about Sir James Chettam and the buildings, and was careful not to give further offence: having once said what she wanted to say, Celia had no disposition to recur to disagreeable subjects. It had been her nature when a child never to quarrel with any one—only to observe with wonder that they quarrelled with her, and looked like turkey-cocks; whereupon she was ready to play at cat’s cradle with them whenever they recovered themselves. And as to Dorothea, it had always been her way to find something wrong in her sister’s words, though Celia inwardly protested that she always said just how things were, and nothing else: she never did and never could put words together out of her own head. But the best of Dodo was, that she did not keep angry for long together. Now, though they had hardly spoken to each other all the evening, yet when Celia put by her work, intending to go to bed, a proceeding in which she was always much the earlier, Dorothea, who was seated on a low stool, unable to occupy herself except in meditation, said, with the musical intonation which in moments of deep but quiet feeling made her speech like a fine bit of recitative—
“Celia, dear, come and kiss me,” holding her arms open as she spoke.
Celia knelt down to get the right level and gave her little butterfly kiss, while Dorothea encircled her with gentle arms and pressed her lips gravely on each cheek in turn.
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- Middlemarch - 52Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3299Total number of unique words is 104353.5 of words are in the 2000 most common words69.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words78.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 53Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3243Total number of unique words is 111449.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words66.2 of words are in the 5000 most common words74.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 54Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3087Total number of unique words is 99555.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words73.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 55Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3270Total number of unique words is 108053.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words70.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 56Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3296Total number of unique words is 107456.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words75.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words81.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 57Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3287Total number of unique words is 95661.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words75.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words82.0 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 58Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3335Total number of unique words is 92260.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words77.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words84.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 59Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3337Total number of unique words is 105455.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words69.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words77.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 60Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3289Total number of unique words is 99356.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words72.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 61Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3362Total number of unique words is 97758.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words74.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 62Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3376Total number of unique words is 107556.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words73.0 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.7 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 63Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3391Total number of unique words is 109655.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words70.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words76.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 64Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3356Total number of unique words is 98560.9 of words are in the 2000 most common words76.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words83.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 65Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3278Total number of unique words is 108253.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words70.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words77.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 66Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3358Total number of unique words is 92859.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words74.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.7 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 67Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3231Total number of unique words is 101059.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words74.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words81.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 68Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3251Total number of unique words is 101458.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words74.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words82.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 69Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3389Total number of unique words is 112353.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words74.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words82.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 70Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3201Total number of unique words is 97059.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words76.2 of words are in the 5000 most common words82.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 71Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3128Total number of unique words is 108653.5 of words are in the 2000 most common words70.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 72Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3322Total number of unique words is 107257.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words73.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words81.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 73Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3290Total number of unique words is 107653.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words72.0 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 74Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3363Total number of unique words is 100460.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words77.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words83.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 75Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3324Total number of unique words is 99662.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words78.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words84.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 76Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3261Total number of unique words is 103157.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words75.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words81.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 77Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3401Total number of unique words is 96461.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words77.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words83.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 78Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3396Total number of unique words is 102258.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words75.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 79Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3462Total number of unique words is 103358.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words75.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words82.0 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 80Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3287Total number of unique words is 105955.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words76.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words84.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 81Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3402Total number of unique words is 109957.9 of words are in the 2000 most common words75.2 of words are in the 5000 most common words83.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 82Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3317Total number of unique words is 96961.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words78.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words84.7 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 83Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3308Total number of unique words is 104458.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words75.0 of words are in the 5000 most common words81.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 84Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3270Total number of unique words is 103058.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words75.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words82.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 85Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3244Total number of unique words is 103954.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words69.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words76.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 86Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3316Total number of unique words is 103057.5 of words are in the 2000 most common words73.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 87Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3223Total number of unique words is 97156.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words73.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 88Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3334Total number of unique words is 106658.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words77.0 of words are in the 5000 most common words83.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 89Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3279Total number of unique words is 95561.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words80.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words86.7 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 90Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3406Total number of unique words is 91565.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words80.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words85.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 91Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3271Total number of unique words is 102856.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words75.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words83.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 92Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3296Total number of unique words is 107556.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words74.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words82.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 93Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3247Total number of unique words is 97659.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words76.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words82.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 94Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 2936Total number of unique words is 92761.9 of words are in the 2000 most common words76.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words84.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 95Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3395Total number of unique words is 97160.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words78.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words84.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 96Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3204Total number of unique words is 83763.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words78.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words83.0 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 97Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3148Total number of unique words is 99657.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words71.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words78.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 98Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 2633Total number of unique words is 92257.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words76.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words83.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words