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Poor Mr. Casaubon! This suffering was the harder to bear because it seemed like a betrayal: the young creature who had worshipped him with perfect trust had quickly turned into the critical wife; and early instances of criticism and resentment had made an impression which no tenderness and submission afterwards could remove. To his suspicious interpretation Dorothea’s silence now was a suppressed rebellion; a remark from her which he had not in any way anticipated was an assertion of conscious superiority; her gentle answers had an irritating cautiousness in them; and when she acquiesced it was a self-approved effort of forbearance. The tenacity with which he strove to hide this inward drama made it the more vivid for him; as we hear with the more keenness what we wish others not to hear.
Instead of wondering at this result of misery in Mr. Casaubon, I think it quite ordinary. Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. And who, if Mr. Casaubon had chosen to expound his discontents—his suspicions that he was not any longer adored without criticism—could have denied that they were founded on good reasons? On the contrary, there was a strong reason to be added, which he had not himself taken explicitly into account—namely, that he was not unmixedly adorable. He suspected this, however, as he suspected other things, without confessing it, and like the rest of us, felt how soothing it would have been to have a companion who would never find it out.
This sore susceptibility in relation to Dorothea was thoroughly prepared before Will Ladislaw had returned to Lowick, and what had occurred since then had brought Mr. Casaubon’s power of suspicious construction into exasperated activity. To all the facts which he knew, he added imaginary facts both present and future which became more real to him than those because they called up a stronger dislike, a more predominating bitterness. Suspicion and jealousy of Will Ladislaw’s intentions, suspicion and jealousy of Dorothea’s impressions, were constantly at their weaving work. It would be quite unjust to him to suppose that he could have entered into any coarse misinterpretation of Dorothea: his own habits of mind and conduct, quite as much as the open elevation of her nature, saved him from any such mistake. What he was jealous of was her opinion, the sway that might be given to her ardent mind in its judgments, and the future possibilities to which these might lead her. As to Will, though until his last defiant letter he had nothing definite which he would choose formally to allege against him, he felt himself warranted in believing that he was capable of any design which could fascinate a rebellious temper and an undisciplined impulsiveness. He was quite sure that Dorothea was the cause of Will’s return from Rome, and his determination to settle in the neighborhood; and he was penetrating enough to imagine that Dorothea had innocently encouraged this course. It was as clear as possible that she was ready to be attached to Will and to be pliant to his suggestions: they had never had a tête-à-tête without her bringing away from it some new troublesome impression, and the last interview that Mr. Casaubon was aware of (Dorothea, on returning from Freshitt Hall, had for the first time been silent about having seen Will) had led to a scene which roused an angrier feeling against them both than he had ever known before. Dorothea’s outpouring of her notions about money, in the darkness of the night, had done nothing but bring a mixture of more odious foreboding into her husband’s mind.
And there was the shock lately given to his health always sadly present with him. He was certainly much revived; he had recovered all his usual power of work: the illness might have been mere fatigue, and there might still be twenty years of achievement before him, which would justify the thirty years of preparation. That prospect was made the sweeter by a flavor of vengeance against the hasty sneers of Carp & Company; for even when Mr. Casaubon was carrying his taper among the tombs of the past, those modern figures came athwart the dim light, and interrupted his diligent exploration. To convince Carp of his mistake, so that he would have to eat his own words with a good deal of indigestion, would be an agreeable accident of triumphant authorship, which the prospect of living to future ages on earth and to all eternity in heaven could not exclude from contemplation. Since, thus, the prevision of his own unending bliss could not nullify the bitter savors of irritated jealousy and vindictiveness, it is the less surprising that the probability of a transient earthly bliss for other persons, when he himself should have entered into glory, had not a potently sweetening effect. If the truth should be that some undermining disease was at work within him, there might be large opportunity for some people to be the happier when he was gone; and if one of those people should be Will Ladislaw, Mr. Casaubon objected so strongly that it seemed as if the annoyance would make part of his disembodied existence.
This is a very bare and therefore a very incomplete way of putting the case. The human soul moves in many channels, and Mr. Casaubon, we know, had a sense of rectitude and an honorable pride in satisfying the requirements of honor, which compelled him to find other reasons for his conduct than those of jealousy and vindictiveness. The way in which Mr. Casaubon put the case was this:—“In marrying Dorothea Brooke I had to care for her well-being in case of my death. But well-being is not to be secured by ample, independent possession of property; on the contrary, occasions might arise in which such possession might expose her to the more danger. She is ready prey to any man who knows how to play adroitly either on her affectionate ardor or her Quixotic enthusiasm; and a man stands by with that very intention in his mind—a man with no other principle than transient caprice, and who has a personal animosity towards me—I am sure of it—an animosity which is fed by the consciousness of his ingratitude, and which he has constantly vented in ridicule of which I am as well assured as if I had heard it. Even if I live I shall not be without uneasiness as to what he may attempt through indirect influence. This man has gained Dorothea’s ear: he has fascinated her attention; he has evidently tried to impress her mind with the notion that he has claims beyond anything I have done for him. If I die—and he is waiting here on the watch for that—he will persuade her to marry him. That would be calamity for her and success for him. She would not think it calamity: he would make her believe anything; she has a tendency to immoderate attachment which she inwardly reproaches me for not responding to, and already her mind is occupied with his fortunes. He thinks of an easy conquest and of entering into my nest. That I will hinder! Such a marriage would be fatal to Dorothea. Has he ever persisted in anything except from contradiction? In knowledge he has always tried to be showy at small cost. In religion he could be, as long as it suited him, the facile echo of Dorothea’s vagaries. When was sciolism ever dissociated from laxity? I utterly distrust his morals, and it is my duty to hinder to the utmost the fulfilment of his designs.”
The arrangements made by Mr. Casaubon on his marriage left strong measures open to him, but in ruminating on them his mind inevitably dwelt so much on the probabilities of his own life that the longing to get the nearest possible calculation had at last overcome his proud reticence, and had determined him to ask Lydgate’s opinion as to the nature of his illness.
He had mentioned to Dorothea that Lydgate was coming by appointment at half-past three, and in answer to her anxious question, whether he had felt ill, replied,—“No, I merely wish to have his opinion concerning some habitual symptoms. You need not see him, my dear. I shall give orders that he may be sent to me in the Yew-tree Walk, where I shall be taking my usual exercise.”
When Lydgate entered the Yew-tree Walk he saw Mr. Casaubon slowly receding with his hands behind him according to his habit, and his head bent forward. It was a lovely afternoon; the leaves from the lofty limes were falling silently across the sombre evergreens, while the lights and shadows slept side by side: there was no sound but the cawing of the rooks, which to the accustomed ear is a lullaby, or that last solemn lullaby, a dirge. Lydgate, conscious of an energetic frame in its prime, felt some compassion when the figure which he was likely soon to overtake turned round, and in advancing towards him showed more markedly than ever the signs of premature age—the student’s bent shoulders, the emaciated limbs, and the melancholy lines of the mouth. “Poor fellow,” he thought, “some men with his years are like lions; one can tell nothing of their age except that they are full grown.”
“Mr. Lydgate,” said Mr. Casaubon, with his invariably polite air, “I am exceedingly obliged to you for your punctuality. We will, if you please, carry on our conversation in walking to and fro.”
“I hope your wish to see me is not due to the return of unpleasant symptoms,” said Lydgate, filling up a pause.
“Not immediately—no. In order to account for that wish I must mention—what it were otherwise needless to refer to—that my life, on all collateral accounts insignificant, derives a possible importance from the incompleteness of labors which have extended through all its best years. In short, I have long had on hand a work which I would fain leave behind me in such a state, at least, that it might be committed to the press by—others. Were I assured that this is the utmost I can reasonably expect, that assurance would be a useful circumscription of my attempts, and a guide in both the positive and negative determination of my course.”
Here Mr. Casaubon paused, removed one hand from his back and thrust it between the buttons of his single-breasted coat. To a mind largely instructed in the human destiny hardly anything could be more interesting than the inward conflict implied in his formal measured address, delivered with the usual sing-song and motion of the head. Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been all the significance of its life—a significance which is to vanish as the waters which come and go where no man has need of them? But there was nothing to strike others as sublime about Mr. Casaubon, and Lydgate, who had some contempt at hand for futile scholarship, felt a little amusement mingling with his pity. He was at present too ill acquainted with disaster to enter into the pathos of a lot where everything is below the level of tragedy except the passionate egoism of the sufferer.
“You refer to the possible hindrances from want of health?” he said, wishing to help forward Mr. Casaubon’s purpose, which seemed to be clogged by some hesitation.
“I do. You have not implied to me that the symptoms which—I am bound to testify—you watched with scrupulous care, were those of a fatal disease. But were it so, Mr. Lydgate, I should desire to know the truth without reservation, and I appeal to you for an exact statement of your conclusions: I request it as a friendly service. If you can tell me that my life is not threatened by anything else than ordinary casualties, I shall rejoice, on grounds which I have already indicated. If not, knowledge of the truth is even more important to me.”
“Then I can no longer hesitate as to my course,” said Lydgate; “but the first thing I must impress on you is that my conclusions are doubly uncertain—uncertain not only because of my fallibility, but because diseases of the heart are eminently difficult to found predictions on. In any case, one can hardly increase appreciably the tremendous uncertainty of life.”
Mr. Casaubon winced perceptibly, but bowed.
“I believe that you are suffering from what is called fatty degeneration of the heart, a disease which was first divined and explored by Laennec, the man who gave us the stethoscope, not so very many years ago. A good deal of experience—a more lengthened observation—is wanting on the subject. But after what you have said, it is my duty to tell you that death from this disease is often sudden. At the same time, no such result can be predicted. Your condition may be consistent with a tolerably comfortable life for another fifteen years, or even more. I could add no information to this beyond anatomical or medical details, which would leave expectation at precisely the same point.” Lydgate’s instinct was fine enough to tell him that plain speech, quite free from ostentatious caution, would be felt by Mr. Casaubon as a tribute of respect.
“I thank you, Mr. Lydgate,” said Mr. Casaubon, after a moment’s pause. “One thing more I have still to ask: did you communicate what you have now told me to Mrs. Casaubon?”
“Partly—I mean, as to the possible issues.” Lydgate was going to explain why he had told Dorothea, but Mr. Casaubon, with an unmistakable desire to end the conversation, waved his hand slightly, and said again, “I thank you,” proceeding to remark on the rare beauty of the day.
Lydgate, certain that his patient wished to be alone, soon left him; and the black figure with hands behind and head bent forward continued to pace the walk where the dark yew-trees gave him a mute companionship in melancholy, and the little shadows of bird or leaf that fleeted across the isles of sunlight, stole along in silence as in the presence of a sorrow. Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death—who was passing through one of those rare moments of experience when we feel the truth of a commonplace, which is as different from what we call knowing it, as the vision of waters upon the earth is different from the delirious vision of the water which cannot be had to cool the burning tongue. When the commonplace “We must all die” transforms itself suddenly into the acute consciousness “I must die—and soon,” then death grapples us, and his fingers are cruel; afterwards, he may come to fold us in his arms as our mother did, and our last moment of dim earthly discerning may be like the first. To Mr. Casaubon now, it was as if he suddenly found himself on the dark river-brink and heard the plash of the oncoming oar, not discerning the forms, but expecting the summons. In such an hour the mind does not change its lifelong bias, but carries it onward in imagination to the other side of death, gazing backward—perhaps with the divine calm of beneficence, perhaps with the petty anxieties of self-assertion. What was Mr. Casaubon’s bias his acts will give us a clew to. He held himself to be, with some private scholarly reservations, a believing Christian, as to estimates of the present and hopes of the future. But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire: the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love. And Mr. Casaubon’s immediate desire was not for divine communion and light divested of earthly conditions; his passionate longings, poor man, clung low and mist-like in very shady places.
Dorothea had been aware when Lydgate had ridden away, and she had stepped into the garden, with the impulse to go at once to her husband. But she hesitated, fearing to offend him by obtruding herself; for her ardor, continually repulsed, served, with her intense memory, to heighten her dread, as thwarted energy subsides into a shudder; and she wandered slowly round the nearer clumps of trees until she saw him advancing. Then she went towards him, and might have represented a heaven-sent angel coming with a promise that the short hours remaining should yet be filled with that faithful love which clings the closer to a comprehended grief. His glance in reply to hers was so chill that she felt her timidity increased; yet she turned and passed her hand through his arm.
Mr. Casaubon kept his hands behind him and allowed her pliant arm to cling with difficulty against his rigid arm.
There was something horrible to Dorothea in the sensation which this unresponsive hardness inflicted on her. That is a strong word, but not too strong: it is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness—calling their denial knowledge. You may ask why, in the name of manliness, Mr. Casaubon should have behaved in that way. Consider that his was a mind which shrank from pity: have you ever watched in such a mind the effect of a suspicion that what is pressing it as a grief may be really a source of contentment, either actual or future, to the being who already offends by pitying? Besides, he knew little of Dorothea’s sensations, and had not reflected that on such an occasion as the present they were comparable in strength to his own sensibilities about Carp’s criticisms.
Dorothea did not withdraw her arm, but she could not venture to speak. Mr. Casaubon did not say, “I wish to be alone,” but he directed his steps in silence towards the house, and as they entered by the glass door on this eastern side, Dorothea withdrew her arm and lingered on the matting, that she might leave her husband quite free. He entered the library and shut himself in, alone with his sorrow.
She went up to her boudoir. The open bow-window let in the serene glory of the afternoon lying in the avenue, where the lime-trees cast long shadows. But Dorothea knew nothing of the scene. She threw herself on a chair, not heeding that she was in the dazzling sun-rays: if there were discomfort in that, how could she tell that it was not part of her inward misery?
She was in the reaction of a rebellious anger stronger than any she had felt since her marriage. Instead of tears there came words:—
“What have I done—what am I—that he should treat me so? He never knows what is in my mind—he never cares. What is the use of anything I do? He wishes he had never married me.”
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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
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- 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