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A few days before, Lydgate would have taken no notice of these words as anything more than the Vicar’s usual way of putting things. They seemed now to convey an innuendo which confirmed the impression that he had been making a fool of himself and behaving so as to be misunderstood: not, he believed, by Rosamond herself; she, he felt sure, took everything as lightly as he intended it. She had an exquisite tact and insight in relation to all points of manners; but the people she lived among were blunderers and busybodies. However, the mistake should go no farther. He resolved—and kept his resolution—that he would not go to Mr. Vincy’s except on business.
Rosamond became very unhappy. The uneasiness first stirred by her aunt’s questions grew and grew till at the end of ten days that she had not seen Lydgate, it grew into terror at the blank that might possibly come—into foreboding of that ready, fatal sponge which so cheaply wipes out the hopes of mortals. The world would have a new dreariness for her, as a wilderness that a magician’s spells had turned for a little while into a garden. She felt that she was beginning to know the pang of disappointed love, and that no other man could be the occasion of such delightful aerial building as she had been enjoying for the last six months. Poor Rosamond lost her appetite and felt as forlorn as Ariadne—as a charming stage Ariadne left behind with all her boxes full of costumes and no hope of a coach.
There are many wonderful mixtures in the world which are all alike called love, and claim the privileges of a sublime rage which is an apology for everything (in literature and the drama). Happily Rosamond did not think of committing any desperate act: she plaited her fair hair as beautifully as usual, and kept herself proudly calm. Her most cheerful supposition was that her aunt Bulstrode had interfered in some way to hinder Lydgate’s visits: everything was better than a spontaneous indifference in him. Any one who imagines ten days too short a time—not for falling into leanness, lightness, or other measurable effects of passion, but—for the whole spiritual circuit of alarmed conjecture and disappointment, is ignorant of what can go on in the elegant leisure of a young lady’s mind.
On the eleventh day, however, Lydgate when leaving Stone Court was requested by Mrs. Vincy to let her husband know that there was a marked change in Mr. Featherstone’s health, and that she wished him to come to Stone Court on that day. Now Lydgate might have called at the warehouse, or might have written a message on a leaf of his pocket-book and left it at the door. Yet these simple devices apparently did not occur to him, from which we may conclude that he had no strong objection to calling at the house at an hour when Mr. Vincy was not at home, and leaving the message with Miss Vincy. A man may, from various motives, decline to give his company, but perhaps not even a sage would be gratified that nobody missed him. It would be a graceful, easy way of piecing on the new habits to the old, to have a few playful words with Rosamond about his resistance to dissipation, and his firm resolve to take long fasts even from sweet sounds. It must be confessed, also, that momentary speculations as to all the possible grounds for Mrs. Bulstrode’s hints had managed to get woven like slight clinging hairs into the more substantial web of his thoughts.
Miss Vincy was alone, and blushed so deeply when Lydgate came in that he felt a corresponding embarrassment, and instead of any playfulness, he began at once to speak of his reason for calling, and to beg her, almost formally, to deliver the message to her father. Rosamond, who at the first moment felt as if her happiness were returning, was keenly hurt by Lydgate’s manner; her blush had departed, and she assented coldly, without adding an unnecessary word, some trivial chain-work which she had in her hands enabling her to avoid looking at Lydgate higher than his chin. In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole. After sitting two long moments while he moved his whip and could say nothing, Lydgate rose to go, and Rosamond, made nervous by her struggle between mortification and the wish not to betray it, dropped her chain as if startled, and rose too, mechanically. Lydgate instantaneously stooped to pick up the chain. When he rose he was very near to a lovely little face set on a fair long neck which he had been used to see turning about under the most perfect management of self-contented grace. But as he raised his eyes now he saw a certain helpless quivering which touched him quite newly, and made him look at Rosamond with a questioning flash. At this moment she was as natural as she had ever been when she was five years old: she felt that her tears had risen, and it was no use to try to do anything else than let them stay like water on a blue flower or let them fall over her cheeks, even as they would.
That moment of naturalness was the crystallizing feather-touch: it shook flirtation into love. Remember that the ambitious man who was looking at those Forget-me-nots under the water was very warm-hearted and rash. He did not know where the chain went; an idea had thrilled through the recesses within him which had a miraculous effect in raising the power of passionate love lying buried there in no sealed sepulchre, but under the lightest, easily pierced mould. His words were quite abrupt and awkward; but the tone made them sound like an ardent, appealing avowal.
“What is the matter? you are distressed. Tell me, pray.”
Rosamond had never been spoken to in such tones before. I am not sure that she knew what the words were: but she looked at Lydgate and the tears fell over her cheeks. There could have been no more complete answer than that silence, and Lydgate, forgetting everything else, completely mastered by the outrush of tenderness at the sudden belief that this sweet young creature depended on him for her joy, actually put his arms round her, folding her gently and protectingly—he was used to being gentle with the weak and suffering—and kissed each of the two large tears. This was a strange way of arriving at an understanding, but it was a short way. Rosamond was not angry, but she moved backward a little in timid happiness, and Lydgate could now sit near her and speak less incompletely. Rosamond had to make her little confession, and he poured out words of gratitude and tenderness with impulsive lavishment. In half an hour he left the house an engaged man, whose soul was not his own, but the woman’s to whom he had bound himself.
He came again in the evening to speak with Mr. Vincy, who, just returned from Stone Court, was feeling sure that it would not be long before he heard of Mr. Featherstone’s demise. The felicitous word “demise,” which had seasonably occurred to him, had raised his spirits even above their usual evening pitch. The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action. Considered as a demise, old Featherstone’s death assumed a merely legal aspect, so that Mr. Vincy could tap his snuff-box over it and be jovial, without even an intermittent affectation of solemnity; and Mr. Vincy hated both solemnity and affectation. Who was ever awe struck about a testator, or sang a hymn on the title to real property? Mr. Vincy was inclined to take a jovial view of all things that evening: he even observed to Lydgate that Fred had got the family constitution after all, and would soon be as fine a fellow as ever again; and when his approbation of Rosamond’s engagement was asked for, he gave it with astonishing facility, passing at once to general remarks on the desirableness of matrimony for young men and maidens, and apparently deducing from the whole the appropriateness of a little more punch.
CHAPTER XXXII.
They’ll take suggestion as a cat laps milk.
—SHAKESPEARE: Tempest.
The triumphant confidence of the Mayor founded on Mr. Featherstone’s insistent demand that Fred and his mother should not leave him, was a feeble emotion compared with all that was agitating the breasts of the old man’s blood-relations, who naturally manifested more their sense of the family tie and were more visibly numerous now that he had become bedridden. Naturally: for when “poor Peter” had occupied his arm-chair in the wainscoted parlor, no assiduous beetles for whom the cook prepares boiling water could have been less welcome on a hearth which they had reasons for preferring, than those persons whose Featherstone blood was ill-nourished, not from penuriousness on their part, but from poverty. Brother Solomon and Sister Jane were rich, and the family candor and total abstinence from false politeness with which they were always received seemed to them no argument that their brother in the solemn act of making his will would overlook the superior claims of wealth. Themselves at least he had never been unnatural enough to banish from his house, and it seemed hardly eccentric that he should have kept away Brother Jonah, Sister Martha, and the rest, who had no shadow of such claims. They knew Peter’s maxim, that money was a good egg, and should be laid in a warm nest.
But Brother Jonah, Sister Martha, and all the needy exiles, held a different point of view. Probabilities are as various as the faces to be seen at will in fretwork or paper-hangings: every form is there, from Jupiter to Judy, if you only look with creative inclination. To the poorer and least favored it seemed likely that since Peter had done nothing for them in his life, he would remember them at the last. Jonah argued that men liked to make a surprise of their wills, while Martha said that nobody need be surprised if he left the best part of his money to those who least expected it. Also it was not to be thought but that an own brother “lying there” with dropsy in his legs must come to feel that blood was thicker than water, and if he didn’t alter his will, he might have money by him. At any rate some blood-relations should be on the premises and on the watch against those who were hardly relations at all. Such things had been known as forged wills and disputed wills, which seemed to have the golden-hazy advantage of somehow enabling non-legatees to live out of them. Again, those who were no blood-relations might be caught making away with things—and poor Peter “lying there” helpless! Somebody should be on the watch. But in this conclusion they were at one with Solomon and Jane; also, some nephews, nieces, and cousins, arguing with still greater subtilty as to what might be done by a man able to “will away” his property and give himself large treats of oddity, felt in a handsome sort of way that there was a family interest to be attended to, and thought of Stone Court as a place which it would be nothing but right for them to visit. Sister Martha, otherwise Mrs. Cranch, living with some wheeziness in the Chalky Flats, could not undertake the journey; but her son, as being poor Peter’s own nephew, could represent her advantageously, and watch lest his uncle Jonah should make an unfair use of the improbable things which seemed likely to happen. In fact there was a general sense running in the Featherstone blood that everybody must watch everybody else, and that it would be well for everybody else to reflect that the Almighty was watching him.
Thus Stone Court continually saw one or other blood-relation alighting or departing, and Mary Garth had the unpleasant task of carrying their messages to Mr. Featherstone, who would see none of them, and sent her down with the still more unpleasant task of telling them so. As manager of the household she felt bound to ask them in good provincial fashion to stay and eat; but she chose to consult Mrs. Vincy on the point of extra down-stairs consumption now that Mr. Featherstone was laid up.
“Oh, my dear, you must do things handsomely where there’s last illness and a property. God knows, I don’t grudge them every ham in the house—only, save the best for the funeral. Have some stuffed veal always, and a fine cheese in cut. You must expect to keep open house in these last illnesses,” said liberal Mrs. Vincy, once more of cheerful note and bright plumage.
But some of the visitors alighted and did not depart after the handsome treating to veal and ham. Brother Jonah, for example (there are such unpleasant people in most families; perhaps even in the highest aristocracy there are Brobdingnag specimens, gigantically in debt and bloated at greater expense)—Brother Jonah, I say, having come down in the world, was mainly supported by a calling which he was modest enough not to boast of, though it was much better than swindling either on exchange or turf, but which did not require his presence at Brassing so long as he had a good corner to sit in and a supply of food. He chose the kitchen-corner, partly because he liked it best, and partly because he did not want to sit with Solomon, concerning whom he had a strong brotherly opinion. Seated in a famous arm-chair and in his best suit, constantly within sight of good cheer, he had a comfortable consciousness of being on the premises, mingled with fleeting suggestions of Sunday and the bar at the Green Man; and he informed Mary Garth that he should not go out of reach of his brother Peter while that poor fellow was above ground. The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots. Jonah was the wit among the Featherstones, and joked with the maid-servants when they came about the hearth, but seemed to consider Miss Garth a suspicious character, and followed her with cold eyes.
Mary would have borne this one pair of eyes with comparative ease, but unfortunately there was young Cranch, who, having come all the way from the Chalky Flats to represent his mother and watch his uncle Jonah, also felt it his duty to stay and to sit chiefly in the kitchen to give his uncle company. Young Cranch was not exactly the balancing point between the wit and the idiot,—verging slightly towards the latter type, and squinting so as to leave everything in doubt about his sentiments except that they were not of a forcible character. When Mary Garth entered the kitchen and Mr. Jonah Featherstone began to follow her with his cold detective eyes, young Cranch turning his head in the same direction seemed to insist on it that she should remark how he was squinting, as if he did it with design, like the gypsies when Borrow read the New Testament to them. This was rather too much for poor Mary; sometimes it made her bilious, sometimes it upset her gravity. One day that she had an opportunity she could not resist describing the kitchen scene to Fred, who would not be hindered from immediately going to see it, affecting simply to pass through. But no sooner did he face the four eyes than he had to rush through the nearest door which happened to lead to the dairy, and there under the high roof and among the pans he gave way to laughter which made a hollow resonance perfectly audible in the kitchen. He fled by another doorway, but Mr. Jonah, who had not before seen Fred’s white complexion, long legs, and pinched delicacy of face, prepared many sarcasms in which these points of appearance were wittily combined with the lowest moral attributes.
“Why, Tom, you don’t wear such gentlemanly trousers—you haven’t got half such fine long legs,” said Jonah to his nephew, winking at the same time, to imply that there was something more in these statements than their undeniableness. Tom looked at his legs, but left it uncertain whether he preferred his moral advantages to a more vicious length of limb and reprehensible gentility of trouser.
In the large wainscoted parlor too there were constantly pairs of eyes on the watch, and own relatives eager to be “sitters-up.” Many came, lunched, and departed, but Brother Solomon and the lady who had been Jane Featherstone for twenty-five years before she was Mrs. Waule found it good to be there every day for hours, without other calculable occupation than that of observing the cunning Mary Garth (who was so deep that she could be found out in nothing) and giving occasional dry wrinkly indications of crying—as if capable of torrents in a wetter season—at the thought that they were not allowed to go into Mr. Featherstone’s room. For the old man’s dislike of his own family seemed to get stronger as he got less able to amuse himself by saying biting things to them. Too languid to sting, he had the more venom refluent in his blood.
Not fully believing the message sent through Mary Garth, they had presented themselves together within the door of the bedroom, both in black—Mrs. Waule having a white handkerchief partially unfolded in her hand—and both with faces in a sort of half-mourning purple; while Mrs. Vincy with her pink cheeks and pink ribbons flying was actually administering a cordial to their own brother, and the light-complexioned Fred, his short hair curling as might be expected in a gambler’s, was lolling at his ease in a large chair.
Old Featherstone no sooner caught sight of these funereal figures appearing in spite of his orders than rage came to strengthen him more successfully than the cordial. He was propped up on a bed-rest, and always had his gold-headed stick lying by him. He seized it now and swept it backwards and forwards in as large an area as he could, apparently to ban these ugly spectres, crying in a hoarse sort of screech—
“Back, back, Mrs. Waule! Back, Solomon!”
“Oh, Brother. Peter,” Mrs. Waule began—but Solomon put his hand before her repressingly. He was a large-cheeked man, nearly seventy, with small furtive eyes, and was not only of much blander temper but thought himself much deeper than his brother Peter; indeed not likely to be deceived in any of his fellow-men, inasmuch as they could not well be more greedy and deceitful than he suspected them of being. Even the invisible powers, he thought, were likely to be soothed by a bland parenthesis here and there—coming from a man of property, who might have been as impious as others.
“Brother Peter,” he said, in a wheedling yet gravely official tone, “It’s nothing but right I should speak to you about the Three Crofts and the Manganese. The Almighty knows what I’ve got on my mind—”
“Then he knows more than I want to know,” said Peter, laying down his stick with a show of truce which had a threat in it too, for he reversed the stick so as to make the gold handle a club in case of closer fighting, and looked hard at Solomon’s bald head.
“There’s things you might repent of, Brother, for want of speaking to me,” said Solomon, not advancing, however. “I could sit up with you to-night, and Jane with me, willingly, and you might take your own time to speak, or let me speak.”
“Yes, I shall take my own time—you needn’t offer me yours,” said Peter.
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- 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