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Since it occurred, a change had come over Fred’s sky, which altered his view of the distance, and was the reason why his uncle Featherstone’s present of money was of importance enough to make his color come and go, first with a too definite expectation, and afterwards with a proportionate disappointment. His failure in passing his examination, had made his accumulation of college debts the more unpardonable by his father, and there had been an unprecedented storm at home. Mr. Vincy had sworn that if he had anything more of that sort to put up with, Fred should turn out and get his living how he could; and he had never yet quite recovered his good-humored tone to his son, who had especially enraged him by saying at this stage of things that he did not want to be a clergyman, and would rather not “go on with that.” Fred was conscious that he would have been yet more severely dealt with if his family as well as himself had not secretly regarded him as Mr. Featherstone’s heir; that old gentleman’s pride in him, and apparent fondness for him, serving in the stead of more exemplary conduct—just as when a youthful nobleman steals jewellery we call the act kleptomania, speak of it with a philosophical smile, and never think of his being sent to the house of correction as if he were a ragged boy who had stolen turnips. In fact, tacit expectations of what would be done for him by uncle Featherstone determined the angle at which most people viewed Fred Vincy in Middlemarch; and in his own consciousness, what uncle Featherstone would do for him in an emergency, or what he would do simply as an incorporated luck, formed always an immeasurable depth of aerial perspective. But that present of bank-notes, once made, was measurable, and being applied to the amount of the debt, showed a deficit which had still to be filled up either by Fred’s “judgment” or by luck in some other shape. For that little episode of the alleged borrowing, in which he had made his father the agent in getting the Bulstrode certificate, was a new reason against going to his father for money towards meeting his actual debt. Fred was keen enough to foresee that anger would confuse distinctions, and that his denial of having borrowed expressly on the strength of his uncle’s will would be taken as a falsehood. He had gone to his father and told him one vexatious affair, and he had left another untold: in such cases the complete revelation always produces the impression of a previous duplicity. Now Fred piqued himself on keeping clear of lies, and even fibs; he often shrugged his shoulders and made a significant grimace at what he called Rosamond’s fibs (it is only brothers who can associate such ideas with a lovely girl); and rather than incur the accusation of falsehood he would even incur some trouble and self-restraint. It was under strong inward pressure of this kind that Fred had taken the wise step of depositing the eighty pounds with his mother. It was a pity that he had not at once given them to Mr. Garth; but he meant to make the sum complete with another sixty, and with a view to this, he had kept twenty pounds in his own pocket as a sort of seed-corn, which, planted by judgment, and watered by luck, might yield more than threefold—a very poor rate of multiplication when the field is a young gentleman’s infinite soul, with all the numerals at command.

Fred was not a gambler: he had not that specific disease in which the suspension of the whole nervous energy on a chance or risk becomes as necessary as the dram to the drunkard; he had only the tendency to that diffusive form of gambling which has no alcoholic intensity, but is carried on with the healthiest chyle-fed blood, keeping up a joyous imaginative activity which fashions events according to desire, and having no fears about its own weather, only sees the advantage there must be to others in going aboard with it. Hopefulness has a pleasure in making a throw of any kind, because the prospect of success is certain; and only a more generous pleasure in offering as many as possible a share in the stake. Fred liked play, especially billiards, as he liked hunting or riding a steeple-chase; and he only liked it the better because he wanted money and hoped to win. But the twenty pounds’ worth of seed-corn had been planted in vain in the seductive green plot—all of it at least which had not been dispersed by the roadside—and Fred found himself close upon the term of payment with no money at command beyond the eighty pounds which he had deposited with his mother. The broken-winded horse which he rode represented a present which had been made to him a long while ago by his uncle Featherstone: his father always allowed him to keep a horse, Mr. Vincy’s own habits making him regard this as a reasonable demand even for a son who was rather exasperating. This horse, then, was Fred’s property, and in his anxiety to meet the imminent bill he determined to sacrifice a possession without which life would certainly be worth little. He made the resolution with a sense of heroism—heroism forced on him by the dread of breaking his word to Mr. Garth, by his love for Mary and awe of her opinion. He would start for Houndsley horse-fair which was to be held the next morning, and—simply sell his horse, bringing back the money by coach?—Well, the horse would hardly fetch more than thirty pounds, and there was no knowing what might happen; it would be folly to balk himself of luck beforehand. It was a hundred to one that some good chance would fall in his way; the longer he thought of it, the less possible it seemed that he should not have a good chance, and the less reasonable that he should not equip himself with the powder and shot for bringing it down. He would ride to Houndsley with Bambridge and with Horrock “the vet,” and without asking them anything expressly, he should virtually get the benefit of their opinion. Before he set out, Fred got the eighty pounds from his mother.

Most of those who saw Fred riding out of Middlemarch in company with Bambridge and Horrock, on his way of course to Houndsley horse-fair, thought that young Vincy was pleasure-seeking as usual; and but for an unwonted consciousness of grave matters on hand, he himself would have had a sense of dissipation, and of doing what might be expected of a gay young fellow. Considering that Fred was not at all coarse, that he rather looked down on the manners and speech of young men who had not been to the university, and that he had written stanzas as pastoral and unvoluptuous as his flute-playing, his attraction towards Bambridge and Horrock was an interesting fact which even the love of horse-flesh would not wholly account for without that mysterious influence of Naming which determinates so much of mortal choice. Under any other name than “pleasure” the society of Messieurs Bambridge and Horrock must certainly have been regarded as monotonous; and to arrive with them at Houndsley on a drizzling afternoon, to get down at the Red Lion in a street shaded with coal-dust, and dine in a room furnished with a dirt-enamelled map of the county, a bad portrait of an anonymous horse in a stable, His Majesty George the Fourth with legs and cravat, and various leaden spittoons, might have seemed a hard business, but for the sustaining power of nomenclature which determined that the pursuit of these things was “gay.”

In Mr. Horrock there was certainly an apparent unfathomableness which offered play to the imagination. Costume, at a glance, gave him a thrilling association with horses (enough to specify the hat-brim which took the slightest upward angle just to escape the suspicion of bending downwards), and nature had given him a face which by dint of Mongolian eyes, and a nose, mouth, and chin seeming to follow his hat-brim in a moderate inclination upwards, gave the effect of a subdued unchangeable sceptical smile, of all expressions the most tyrannous over a susceptible mind, and, when accompanied by adequate silence, likely to create the reputation of an invincible understanding, an infinite fund of humor—too dry to flow, and probably in a state of immovable crust,—and a critical judgment which, if you could ever be fortunate enough to know it, would be the thing and no other. It is a physiognomy seen in all vocations, but perhaps it has never been more powerful over the youth of England than in a judge of horses.

Mr. Horrock, at a question from Fred about his horse’s fetlock, turned sideways in his saddle, and watched the horse’s action for the space of three minutes, then turned forward, twitched his own bridle, and remained silent with a profile neither more nor less sceptical than it had been.

The part thus played in dialogue by Mr. Horrock was terribly effective. A mixture of passions was excited in Fred—a mad desire to thrash Horrock’s opinion into utterance, restrained by anxiety to retain the advantage of his friendship. There was always the chance that Horrock might say something quite invaluable at the right moment.

Mr. Bambridge had more open manners, and appeared to give forth his ideas without economy. He was loud, robust, and was sometimes spoken of as being “given to indulgence”—chiefly in swearing, drinking, and beating his wife. Some people who had lost by him called him a vicious man; but he regarded horse-dealing as the finest of the arts, and might have argued plausibly that it had nothing to do with morality. He was undeniably a prosperous man, bore his drinking better than others bore their moderation, and, on the whole, flourished like the green bay-tree. But his range of conversation was limited, and like the fine old tune, “Drops of brandy,” gave you after a while a sense of returning upon itself in a way that might make weak heads dizzy. But a slight infusion of Mr. Bambridge was felt to give tone and character to several circles in Middlemarch; and he was a distinguished figure in the bar and billiard-room at the Green Dragon. He knew some anecdotes about the heroes of the turf, and various clever tricks of Marquesses and Viscounts which seemed to prove that blood asserted its pre-eminence even among black-legs; but the minute retentiveness of his memory was chiefly shown about the horses he had himself bought and sold; the number of miles they would trot you in no time without turning a hair being, after the lapse of years, still a subject of passionate asseveration, in which he would assist the imagination of his hearers by solemnly swearing that they never saw anything like it. In short, Mr. Bambridge was a man of pleasure and a gay companion.

Fred was subtle, and did not tell his friends that he was going to Houndsley bent on selling his horse: he wished to get indirectly at their genuine opinion of its value, not being aware that a genuine opinion was the last thing likely to be extracted from such eminent critics. It was not Mr. Bambridge’s weakness to be a gratuitous flatterer. He had never before been so much struck with the fact that this unfortunate bay was a roarer to a degree which required the roundest word for perdition to give you any idea of it.

“You made a bad hand at swapping when you went to anybody but me, Vincy! Why, you never threw your leg across a finer horse than that chestnut, and you gave him for this brute. If you set him cantering, he goes on like twenty sawyers. I never heard but one worse roarer in my life, and that was a roan: it belonged to Pegwell, the corn-factor; he used to drive him in his gig seven years ago, and he wanted me to take him, but I said, ‘Thank you, Peg, I don’t deal in wind-instruments.’ That was what I said. It went the round of the country, that joke did. But, what the hell! the horse was a penny trumpet to that roarer of yours.”

“Why, you said just now his was worse than mine,” said Fred, more irritable than usual.

“I said a lie, then,” said Mr. Bambridge, emphatically. “There wasn’t a penny to choose between ’em.”

Fred spurred his horse, and they trotted on a little way. When they slackened again, Mr. Bambridge said—

“Not but what the roan was a better trotter than yours.”

“I’m quite satisfied with his paces, I know,” said Fred, who required all the consciousness of being in gay company to support him; “I say his trot is an uncommonly clean one, eh, Horrock?”

Mr. Horrock looked before him with as complete a neutrality as if he had been a portrait by a great master.

Fred gave up the fallacious hope of getting a genuine opinion; but on reflection he saw that Bambridge’s depreciation and Horrock’s silence were both virtually encouraging, and indicated that they thought better of the horse than they chose to say.

That very evening, indeed, before the fair had set in, Fred thought he saw a favorable opening for disposing advantageously of his horse, but an opening which made him congratulate himself on his foresight in bringing with him his eighty pounds. A young farmer, acquainted with Mr. Bambridge, came into the Red Lion, and entered into conversation about parting with a hunter, which he introduced at once as Diamond, implying that it was a public character. For himself he only wanted a useful hack, which would draw upon occasion; being about to marry and to give up hunting. The hunter was in a friend’s stable at some little distance; there was still time for gentlemen to see it before dark. The friend’s stable had to be reached through a back street where you might as easily have been poisoned without expense of drugs as in any grim street of that unsanitary period. Fred was not fortified against disgust by brandy, as his companions were, but the hope of having at last seen the horse that would enable him to make money was exhilarating enough to lead him over the same ground again the first thing in the morning. He felt sure that if he did not come to a bargain with the farmer, Bambridge would; for the stress of circumstances, Fred felt, was sharpening his acuteness and endowing him with all the constructive power of suspicion. Bambridge had run down Diamond in a way that he never would have done (the horse being a friend’s) if he had not thought of buying it; every one who looked at the animal—even Horrock—was evidently impressed with its merit. To get all the advantage of being with men of this sort, you must know how to draw your inferences, and not be a spoon who takes things literally. The color of the horse was a dappled gray, and Fred happened to know that Lord Medlicote’s man was on the look-out for just such a horse. After all his running down, Bambridge let it out in the course of the evening, when the farmer was absent, that he had seen worse horses go for eighty pounds. Of course he contradicted himself twenty times over, but when you know what is likely to be true you can test a man’s admissions. And Fred could not but reckon his own judgment of a horse as worth something. The farmer had paused over Fred’s respectable though broken-winded steed long enough to show that he thought it worth consideration, and it seemed probable that he would take it, with five-and-twenty pounds in addition, as the equivalent of Diamond. In that case Fred, when he had parted with his new horse for at least eighty pounds, would be fifty-five pounds in pocket by the transaction, and would have a hundred and thirty-five pounds towards meeting the bill; so that the deficit temporarily thrown on Mr. Garth would at the utmost be twenty-five pounds. By the time he was hurrying on his clothes in the morning, he saw so clearly the importance of not losing this rare chance, that if Bambridge and Horrock had both dissuaded him, he would not have been deluded into a direct interpretation of their purpose: he would have been aware that those deep hands held something else than a young fellow’s interest. With regard to horses, distrust was your only clew. But scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill: something we must believe in and do, and whatever that something may be called, it is virtually our own judgment, even when it seems like the most slavish reliance on another. Fred believed in the excellence of his bargain, and even before the fair had well set in, had got possession of the dappled gray, at the price of his old horse and thirty pounds in addition—only five pounds more than he had expected to give.

But he felt a little worried and wearied, perhaps with mental debate, and without waiting for the further gayeties of the horse-fair, he set out alone on his fourteen miles’ journey, meaning to take it very quietly and keep his horse fresh.

CHAPTER XXIV.

“The offender’s sorrow brings but small relief
To him who wears the strong offence’s cross.”
—SHAKESPEARE: Sonnets.

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  • Middlemarch - 48
    Total number of words is 3407
    Total number of unique words is 983
    61.5 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    76.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    82.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 49
    Total number of words is 3280
    Total number of unique words is 1099
    52.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    69.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    76.0 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 50
    Total number of words is 3248
    Total number of unique words is 1095
    53.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    72.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    80.7 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 51
    Total number of words is 3341
    Total number of unique words is 1018
    61.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    77.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    83.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 52
    Total number of words is 3299
    Total number of unique words is 1043
    53.5 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    69.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    78.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 53
    Total number of words is 3243
    Total number of unique words is 1114
    49.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    66.2 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    74.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 54
    Total number of words is 3087
    Total number of unique words is 995
    55.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    73.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    79.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 55
    Total number of words is 3270
    Total number of unique words is 1080
    53.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    70.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    79.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 56
    Total number of words is 3296
    Total number of unique words is 1074
    56.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    75.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    81.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 57
    Total number of words is 3287
    Total number of unique words is 956
    61.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    75.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    82.0 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 58
    Total number of words is 3335
    Total number of unique words is 922
    60.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    77.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    84.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 59
    Total number of words is 3337
    Total number of unique words is 1054
    55.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    69.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    77.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 60
    Total number of words is 3289
    Total number of unique words is 993
    56.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    72.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    80.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 61
    Total number of words is 3362
    Total number of unique words is 977
    58.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    74.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    80.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 62
    Total number of words is 3376
    Total number of unique words is 1075
    56.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    73.0 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    79.7 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 63
    Total number of words is 3391
    Total number of unique words is 1096
    55.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    70.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    76.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 64
    Total number of words is 3356
    Total number of unique words is 985
    60.9 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    76.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    83.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 65
    Total number of words is 3278
    Total number of unique words is 1082
    53.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    70.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    77.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 66
    Total number of words is 3358
    Total number of unique words is 928
    59.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    74.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    79.7 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 67
    Total number of words is 3231
    Total number of unique words is 1010
    59.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    74.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    81.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 68
    Total number of words is 3251
    Total number of unique words is 1014
    58.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    74.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    82.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 69
    Total number of words is 3389
    Total number of unique words is 1123
    53.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    74.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    82.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 70
    Total number of words is 3201
    Total number of unique words is 970
    59.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    76.2 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    82.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 71
    Total number of words is 3128
    Total number of unique words is 1086
    53.5 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    70.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    79.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 72
    Total number of words is 3322
    Total number of unique words is 1072
    57.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    73.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    81.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 73
    Total number of words is 3290
    Total number of unique words is 1076
    53.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    72.0 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    79.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 74
    Total number of words is 3363
    Total number of unique words is 1004
    60.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    77.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    83.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 75
    Total number of words is 3324
    Total number of unique words is 996
    62.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    78.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    84.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 76
    Total number of words is 3261
    Total number of unique words is 1031
    57.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    75.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    81.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 77
    Total number of words is 3401
    Total number of unique words is 964
    61.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    77.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    83.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • Middlemarch - 78
    Total number of words is 3396
    Total number of unique words is 1022
    58.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    75.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    80.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • Middlemarch - 79
    Total number of words is 3462
    Total number of unique words is 1033
    58.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    75.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    82.0 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 80
    Total number of words is 3287
    Total number of unique words is 1059
    55.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    76.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    84.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 81
    Total number of words is 3402
    Total number of unique words is 1099
    57.9 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    75.2 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    83.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 82
    Total number of words is 3317
    Total number of unique words is 969
    61.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    78.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    84.7 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 83
    Total number of words is 3308
    Total number of unique words is 1044
    58.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    75.0 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    81.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 84
    Total number of words is 3270
    Total number of unique words is 1030
    58.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    75.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    82.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 85
    Total number of words is 3244
    Total number of unique words is 1039
    54.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    69.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    76.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 86
    Total number of words is 3316
    Total number of unique words is 1030
    57.5 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    73.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    80.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 87
    Total number of words is 3223
    Total number of unique words is 971
    56.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    73.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    80.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 88
    Total number of words is 3334
    Total number of unique words is 1066
    58.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    77.0 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    83.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 89
    Total number of words is 3279
    Total number of unique words is 955
    61.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    80.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    86.7 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 90
    Total number of words is 3406
    Total number of unique words is 915
    65.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    80.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    85.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 91
    Total number of words is 3271
    Total number of unique words is 1028
    56.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    75.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    83.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 92
    Total number of words is 3296
    Total number of unique words is 1075
    56.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    74.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    82.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 93
    Total number of words is 3247
    Total number of unique words is 976
    59.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    76.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    82.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 94
    Total number of words is 2936
    Total number of unique words is 927
    61.9 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    76.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    84.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 95
    Total number of words is 3395
    Total number of unique words is 971
    60.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    78.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    84.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • Middlemarch - 96
    Total number of words is 3204
    Total number of unique words is 837
    63.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    78.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    83.0 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 97
    Total number of words is 3148
    Total number of unique words is 996
    57.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    71.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    78.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.
  • Middlemarch - 98
    Total number of words is 2633
    Total number of unique words is 922
    57.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    76.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    83.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
    Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.