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Having silenced Objection by force of unreason, Will walked to Lowick as if he had been on the way to Paradise, crossing Halsell Common and skirting the wood, where the sunlight fell broadly under the budding boughs, bringing out the beauties of moss and lichen, and fresh green growths piercing the brown. Everything seemed to know that it was Sunday, and to approve of his going to Lowick Church. Will easily felt happy when nothing crossed his humor, and by this time the thought of vexing Mr. Casaubon had become rather amusing to him, making his face break into its merry smile, pleasant to see as the breaking of sunshine on the water—though the occasion was not exemplary. But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves. Will went along with a small book under his arm and a hand in each side-pocket, never reading, but chanting a little, as he made scenes of what would happen in church and coming out. He was experimenting in tunes to suit some words of his own, sometimes trying a ready-made melody, sometimes improvising. The words were not exactly a hymn, but they certainly fitted his Sunday experience:—

“O me, O me, what frugal cheer
    My love doth feed upon!
A touch, a ray, that is not here,
    A shadow that is gone:

“A dream of breath that might be near,
    An inly-echoed tone,
The thought that one may think me dear,
    The place where one was known,

“The tremor of a banished fear,
     An ill that was not done—
O me, O me, what frugal cheer
    My love doth feed upon!”

Sometimes, when he took off his hat, shaking his head backward, and showing his delicate throat as he sang, he looked like an incarnation of the spring whose spirit filled the air—a bright creature, abundant in uncertain promises.

The bells were still ringing when he got to Lowick, and he went into the curate’s pew before any one else arrived there. But he was still left alone in it when the congregation had assembled. The curate’s pew was opposite the rector’s at the entrance of the small chancel, and Will had time to fear that Dorothea might not come while he looked round at the group of rural faces which made the congregation from year to year within the white-washed walls and dark old pews, hardly with more change than we see in the boughs of a tree which breaks here and there with age, but yet has young shoots. Mr. Rigg’s frog-face was something alien and unaccountable, but notwithstanding this shock to the order of things, there were still the Waules and the rural stock of the Powderells in their pews side by side; brother Samuel’s cheek had the same purple round as ever, and the three generations of decent cottagers came as of old with a sense of duty to their betters generally—the smaller children regarding Mr. Casaubon, who wore the black gown and mounted to the highest box, as probably the chief of all betters, and the one most awful if offended. Even in 1831 Lowick was at peace, not more agitated by Reform than by the solemn tenor of the Sunday sermon. The congregation had been used to seeing Will at church in former days, and no one took much note of him except the choir, who expected him to make a figure in the singing.

Dorothea did at last appear on this quaint background, walking up the short aisle in her white beaver bonnet and gray cloak—the same she had worn in the Vatican. Her face being, from her entrance, towards the chancel, even her shortsighted eyes soon discerned Will, but there was no outward show of her feeling except a slight paleness and a grave bow as she passed him. To his own surprise Will felt suddenly uncomfortable, and dared not look at her after they had bowed to each other. Two minutes later, when Mr. Casaubon came out of the vestry, and, entering the pew, seated himself in face of Dorothea, Will felt his paralysis more complete. He could look nowhere except at the choir in the little gallery over the vestry-door: Dorothea was perhaps pained, and he had made a wretched blunder. It was no longer amusing to vex Mr. Casaubon, who had the advantage probably of watching him and seeing that he dared not turn his head. Why had he not imagined this beforehand?—but he could not expect that he should sit in that square pew alone, unrelieved by any Tuckers, who had apparently departed from Lowick altogether, for a new clergyman was in the desk. Still he called himself stupid now for not foreseeing that it would be impossible for him to look towards Dorothea—nay, that she might feel his coming an impertinence. There was no delivering himself from his cage, however; and Will found his places and looked at his book as if he had been a school-mistress, feeling that the morning service had never been so immeasurably long before, that he was utterly ridiculous, out of temper, and miserable. This was what a man got by worshipping the sight of a woman! The clerk observed with surprise that Mr. Ladislaw did not join in the tune of Hanover, and reflected that he might have a cold.

Mr. Casaubon did not preach that morning, and there was no change in Will’s situation until the blessing had been pronounced and every one rose. It was the fashion at Lowick for “the betters” to go out first. With a sudden determination to break the spell that was upon him, Will looked straight at Mr. Casaubon. But that gentleman’s eyes were on the button of the pew-door, which he opened, allowing Dorothea to pass, and following her immediately without raising his eyelids. Will’s glance had caught Dorothea’s as she turned out of the pew, and again she bowed, but this time with a look of agitation, as if she were repressing tears. Will walked out after them, but they went on towards the little gate leading out of the churchyard into the shrubbery, never looking round.

It was impossible for him to follow them, and he could only walk back sadly at mid-day along the same road which he had trodden hopefully in the morning. The lights were all changed for him both without and within.

CHAPTER XLVIII.

Surely the golden hours are turning gray
And dance no more, and vainly strive to run:
I see their white locks streaming in the wind—
Each face is haggard as it looks at me,
Slow turning in the constant clasping round
Storm-driven.

Dorothea’s distress when she was leaving the church came chiefly from the perception that Mr. Casaubon was determined not to speak to his cousin, and that Will’s presence at church had served to mark more strongly the alienation between them. Will’s coming seemed to her quite excusable, nay, she thought it an amiable movement in him towards a reconciliation which she herself had been constantly wishing for. He had probably imagined, as she had, that if Mr. Casaubon and he could meet easily, they would shake hands and friendly intercourse might return. But now Dorothea felt quite robbed of that hope. Will was banished further than ever, for Mr. Casaubon must have been newly embittered by this thrusting upon him of a presence which he refused to recognize.

He had not been very well that morning, suffering from some difficulty in breathing, and had not preached in consequence; she was not surprised, therefore, that he was nearly silent at luncheon, still less that he made no allusion to Will Ladislaw. For her own part she felt that she could never again introduce that subject. They usually spent apart the hours between luncheon and dinner on a Sunday; Mr. Casaubon in the library dozing chiefly, and Dorothea in her boudoir, where she was wont to occupy herself with some of her favorite books. There was a little heap of them on the table in the bow-window—of various sorts, from Herodotus, which she was learning to read with Mr. Casaubon, to her old companion Pascal, and Keble’s “Christian Year.” But to-day she opened one after another, and could read none of them. Everything seemed dreary: the portents before the birth of Cyrus—Jewish antiquities—oh dear!—devout epigrams—the sacred chime of favorite hymns—all alike were as flat as tunes beaten on wood: even the spring flowers and the grass had a dull shiver in them under the afternoon clouds that hid the sun fitfully; even the sustaining thoughts which had become habits seemed to have in them the weariness of long future days in which she would still live with them for her sole companions. It was another or rather a fuller sort of companionship that poor Dorothea was hungering for, and the hunger had grown from the perpetual effort demanded by her married life. She was always trying to be what her husband wished, and never able to repose on his delight in what she was. The thing that she liked, that she spontaneously cared to have, seemed to be always excluded from her life; for if it was only granted and not shared by her husband it might as well have been denied. About Will Ladislaw there had been a difference between them from the first, and it had ended, since Mr. Casaubon had so severely repulsed Dorothea’s strong feeling about his claims on the family property, by her being convinced that she was in the right and her husband in the wrong, but that she was helpless. This afternoon the helplessness was more wretchedly benumbing than ever: she longed for objects who could be dear to her, and to whom she could be dear. She longed for work which would be directly beneficent like the sunshine and the rain, and now it appeared that she was to live more and more in a virtual tomb, where there was the apparatus of a ghastly labor producing what would never see the light. Today she had stood at the door of the tomb and seen Will Ladislaw receding into the distant world of warm activity and fellowship—turning his face towards her as he went.

Books were of no use. Thinking was of no use. It was Sunday, and she could not have the carriage to go to Celia, who had lately had a baby. There was no refuge now from spiritual emptiness and discontent, and Dorothea had to bear her bad mood, as she would have borne a headache.

After dinner, at the hour when she usually began to read aloud, Mr. Casaubon proposed that they should go into the library, where, he said, he had ordered a fire and lights. He seemed to have revived, and to be thinking intently.

In the library Dorothea observed that he had newly arranged a row of his note-books on a table, and now he took up and put into her hand a well-known volume, which was a table of contents to all the others.

“You will oblige me, my dear,” he said, seating himself, “if instead of other reading this evening, you will go through this aloud, pencil in hand, and at each point where I say ‘mark,’ will make a cross with your pencil. This is the first step in a sifting process which I have long had in view, and as we go on I shall be able to indicate to you certain principles of selection whereby you will, I trust, have an intelligent participation in my purpose.”

This proposal was only one more sign added to many since his memorable interview with Lydgate, that Mr. Casaubon’s original reluctance to let Dorothea work with him had given place to the contrary disposition, namely, to demand much interest and labor from her.

After she had read and marked for two hours, he said, “We will take the volume up-stairs—and the pencil, if you please—and in case of reading in the night, we can pursue this task. It is not wearisome to you, I trust, Dorothea?”

“I prefer always reading what you like best to hear,” said Dorothea, who told the simple truth; for what she dreaded was to exert herself in reading or anything else which left him as joyless as ever.

It was a proof of the force with which certain characteristics in Dorothea impressed those around her, that her husband, with all his jealousy and suspicion, had gathered implicit trust in the integrity of her promises, and her power of devoting herself to her idea of the right and best. Of late he had begun to feel that these qualities were a peculiar possession for himself, and he wanted to engross them.

The reading in the night did come. Dorothea in her young weariness had slept soon and fast: she was awakened by a sense of light, which seemed to her at first like a sudden vision of sunset after she had climbed a steep hill: she opened her eyes and saw her husband wrapped in his warm gown seating himself in the arm-chair near the fire-place where the embers were still glowing. He had lit two candles, expecting that Dorothea would awake, but not liking to rouse her by more direct means.

“Are you ill, Edward?” she said, rising immediately.

“I felt some uneasiness in a reclining posture. I will sit here for a time.” She threw wood on the fire, wrapped herself up, and said, “You would like me to read to you?”

“You would oblige me greatly by doing so, Dorothea,” said Mr. Casaubon, with a shade more meekness than usual in his polite manner. “I am wakeful: my mind is remarkably lucid.”

“I fear that the excitement may be too great for you,” said Dorothea, remembering Lydgate’s cautions.

“No, I am not conscious of undue excitement. Thought is easy.” Dorothea dared not insist, and she read for an hour or more on the same plan as she had done in the evening, but getting over the pages with more quickness. Mr. Casaubon’s mind was more alert, and he seemed to anticipate what was coming after a very slight verbal indication, saying, “That will do—mark that”—or “Pass on to the next head—I omit the second excursus on Crete.” Dorothea was amazed to think of the bird-like speed with which his mind was surveying the ground where it had been creeping for years. At last he said—

“Close the book now, my dear. We will resume our work to-morrow. I have deferred it too long, and would gladly see it completed. But you observe that the principle on which my selection is made, is to give adequate, and not disproportionate illustration to each of the theses enumerated in my introduction, as at present sketched. You have perceived that distinctly, Dorothea?”

“Yes,” said Dorothea, rather tremulously. She felt sick at heart.

“And now I think that I can take some repose,” said Mr. Casaubon. He laid down again and begged her to put out the lights. When she had lain down too, and there was a darkness only broken by a dull glow on the hearth, he said—

“Before I sleep, I have a request to make, Dorothea.”

“What is it?” said Dorothea, with dread in her mind.

“It is that you will let me know, deliberately, whether, in case of my death, you will carry out my wishes: whether you will avoid doing what I should deprecate, and apply yourself to do what I should desire.”

Dorothea was not taken by surprise: many incidents had been leading her to the conjecture of some intention on her husband’s part which might make a new yoke for her. She did not answer immediately.

“You refuse?” said Mr. Casaubon, with more edge in his tone.

“No, I do not yet refuse,” said Dorothea, in a clear voice, the need of freedom asserting itself within her; “but it is too solemn—I think it is not right—to make a promise when I am ignorant what it will bind me to. Whatever affection prompted I would do without promising.”

“But you would use your own judgment: I ask you to obey mine; you refuse.”

“No, dear, no!” said Dorothea, beseechingly, crushed by opposing fears. “But may I wait and reflect a little while? I desire with my whole soul to do what will comfort you; but I cannot give any pledge suddenly—still less a pledge to do I know not what.”

“You cannot then confide in the nature of my wishes?”

“Grant me till to-morrow,” said Dorothea, beseechingly.

“Till to-morrow then,” said Mr. Casaubon.

Soon she could hear that he was sleeping, but there was no more sleep for her. While she constrained herself to lie still lest she should disturb him, her mind was carrying on a conflict in which imagination ranged its forces first on one side and then on the other. She had no presentiment that the power which her husband wished to establish over her future action had relation to anything else than his work. But it was clear enough to her that he would expect her to devote herself to sifting those mixed heaps of material, which were to be the doubtful illustration of principles still more doubtful. The poor child had become altogether unbelieving as to the trustworthiness of that Key which had made the ambition and the labor of her husband’s life. It was not wonderful that, in spite of her small instruction, her judgment in this matter was truer than his: for she looked with unbiassed comparison and healthy sense at probabilities on which he had risked all his egoism. And now she pictured to herself the days, and months, and years which she must spend in sorting what might be called shattered mummies, and fragments of a tradition which was itself a mosaic wrought from crushed ruins—sorting them as food for a theory which was already withered in the birth like an elfin child. Doubtless a vigorous error vigorously pursued has kept the embryos of truth a-breathing: the quest of gold being at the same time a questioning of substances, the body of chemistry is prepared for its soul, and Lavoisier is born. But Mr. Casaubon’s theory of the elements which made the seed of all tradition was not likely to bruise itself unawares against discoveries: it floated among flexible conjectures no more solid than those etymologies which seemed strong because of likeness in sound until it was shown that likeness in sound made them impossible: it was a method of interpretation which was not tested by the necessity of forming anything which had sharper collisions than an elaborate notion of Gog and Magog: it was as free from interruption as a plan for threading the stars together. And Dorothea had so often had to check her weariness and impatience over this questionable riddle-guessing, as it revealed itself to her instead of the fellowship in high knowledge which was to make life worthier! She could understand well enough now why her husband had come to cling to her, as possibly the only hope left that his labors would ever take a shape in which they could be given to the world. At first it had seemed that he wished to keep even her aloof from any close knowledge of what he was doing; but gradually the terrible stringency of human need—the prospect of a too speedy death—

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  • Middlemarch - 42
    Total number of words is 3095
    Total number of unique words is 1087
    52.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    69.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    76.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • Middlemarch - 43
    Total number of words is 3332
    Total number of unique words is 962
    62.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    79.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    84.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • Middlemarch - 44
    Total number of words is 3284
    Total number of unique words is 1041
    57.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    75.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    82.5 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • Middlemarch - 45
    Total number of words is 3130
    Total number of unique words is 925
    53.9 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    69.6 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    75.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • Middlemarch - 46
    Total number of words is 3207
    Total number of unique words is 954
    60.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    74.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    81.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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  • Middlemarch - 47
    Total number of words is 3225
    Total number of unique words is 1120
    54.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    71.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    77.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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.