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Now Lydgate, like Mr. Farebrother, knew a great deal more than he told, and when he had once been set thinking about the relation between Will and Dorothea his conjectures had gone beyond the fact. He imagined that there was a passionate attachment on both sides, and this struck him as much too serious to gossip about. He remembered Will’s irritability when he had mentioned Mrs. Casaubon, and was the more circumspect. On the whole his surmises, in addition to what he knew of the fact, increased his friendliness and tolerance towards Ladislaw, and made him understand the vacillation which kept him at Middlemarch after he had said that he should go away. It was significant of the separateness between Lydgate’s mind and Rosamond’s that he had no impulse to speak to her on the subject; indeed, he did not quite trust her reticence towards Will. And he was right there; though he had no vision of the way in which her mind would act in urging her to speak.
When she repeated Fred’s news to Lydgate, he said, “Take care you don’t drop the faintest hint to Ladislaw, Rosy. He is likely to fly out as if you insulted him. Of course it is a painful affair.”
Rosamond turned her neck and patted her hair, looking the image of placid indifference. But the next time Will came when Lydgate was away, she spoke archly about his not going to London as he had threatened.
“I know all about it. I have a confidential little bird,” said she, showing very pretty airs of her head over the bit of work held high between her active fingers. “There is a powerful magnet in this neighborhood.”
“To be sure there is. Nobody knows that better than you,” said Will, with light gallantry, but inwardly prepared to be angry.
“It is really the most charming romance: Mr. Casaubon jealous, and foreseeing that there was no one else whom Mrs. Casaubon would so much like to marry, and no one who would so much like to marry her as a certain gentleman; and then laying a plan to spoil all by making her forfeit her property if she did marry that gentleman—and then—and then—and then—oh, I have no doubt the end will be thoroughly romantic.”
“Great God! what do you mean?” said Will, flushing over face and ears, his features seeming to change as if he had had a violent shake. “Don’t joke; tell me what you mean.”
“You don’t really know?” said Rosamond, no longer playful, and desiring nothing better than to tell in order that she might evoke effects.
“No!” he returned, impatiently.
“Don’t know that Mr. Casaubon has left it in his will that if Mrs. Casaubon marries you she is to forfeit all her property?”
“How do you know that it is true?” said Will, eagerly.
“My brother Fred heard it from the Farebrothers.” Will started up from his chair and reached his hat.
“I dare say she likes you better than the property,” said Rosamond, looking at him from a distance.
“Pray don’t say any more about it,” said Will, in a hoarse undertone extremely unlike his usual light voice. “It is a foul insult to her and to me.” Then he sat down absently, looking before him, but seeing nothing.
“Now you are angry with me,” said Rosamond. “It is too bad to bear me malice. You ought to be obliged to me for telling you.”
“So I am,” said Will, abruptly, speaking with that kind of double soul which belongs to dreamers who answer questions.
“I expect to hear of the marriage,” said Rosamond, playfully.
“Never! You will never hear of the marriage!”
With those words uttered impetuously, Will rose, put out his hand to Rosamond, still with the air of a somnambulist, and went away.
When he was gone, Rosamond left her chair and walked to the other end of the room, leaning when she got there against a chiffonniere, and looking out of the window wearily. She was oppressed by ennui, and by that dissatisfaction which in women’s minds is continually turning into a trivial jealousy, referring to no real claims, springing from no deeper passion than the vague exactingness of egoism, and yet capable of impelling action as well as speech. “There really is nothing to care for much,” said poor Rosamond inwardly, thinking of the family at Quallingham, who did not write to her; and that perhaps Tertius when he came home would tease her about expenses. She had already secretly disobeyed him by asking her father to help them, and he had ended decisively by saying, “I am more likely to want help myself.”
CHAPTER LX.
Good phrases are surely, and ever were, very commendable.
—Justice Shallow.
A few days afterwards—it was already the end of August—there was an occasion which caused some excitement in Middlemarch: the public, if it chose, was to have the advantage of buying, under the distinguished auspices of Mr. Borthrop Trumbull, the furniture, books, and pictures which anybody might see by the handbills to be the best in every kind, belonging to Edwin Larcher, Esq. This was not one of the sales indicating the depression of trade; on the contrary, it was due to Mr. Larcher’s great success in the carrying business, which warranted his purchase of a mansion near Riverston already furnished in high style by an illustrious Spa physician—furnished indeed with such large framefuls of expensive flesh-painting in the dining-room, that Mrs. Larcher was nervous until reassured by finding the subjects to be Scriptural. Hence the fine opportunity to purchasers which was well pointed out in the handbills of Mr. Borthrop Trumbull, whose acquaintance with the history of art enabled him to state that the hall furniture, to be sold without reserve, comprised a piece of carving by a contemporary of Gibbons.
At Middlemarch in those times a large sale was regarded as a kind of festival. There was a table spread with the best cold eatables, as at a superior funeral; and facilities were offered for that generous-drinking of cheerful glasses which might lead to generous and cheerful bidding for undesirable articles. Mr. Larcher’s sale was the more attractive in the fine weather because the house stood just at the end of the town, with a garden and stables attached, in that pleasant issue from Middlemarch called the London Road, which was also the road to the New Hospital and to Mr. Bulstrode’s retired residence, known as the Shrubs. In short, the auction was as good as a fair, and drew all classes with leisure at command: to some, who risked making bids in order simply to raise prices, it was almost equal to betting at the races. The second day, when the best furniture was to be sold, “everybody” was there; even Mr. Thesiger, the rector of St. Peter’s, had looked in for a short time, wishing to buy the carved table, and had rubbed elbows with Mr. Bambridge and Mr. Horrock. There was a wreath of Middlemarch ladies accommodated with seats round the large table in the dining-room, where Mr. Borthrop Trumbull was mounted with desk and hammer; but the rows chiefly of masculine faces behind were often varied by incomings and outgoings both from the door and the large bow-window opening on to the lawn.
“Everybody” that day did not include Mr. Bulstrode, whose health could not well endure crowds and draughts. But Mrs. Bulstrode had particularly wished to have a certain picture—a “Supper at Emmaus,” attributed in the catalogue to Guido; and at the last moment before the day of the sale Mr. Bulstrode had called at the office of the “Pioneer,” of which he was now one of the proprietors, to beg of Mr. Ladislaw as a great favor that he would obligingly use his remarkable knowledge of pictures on behalf of Mrs. Bulstrode, and judge of the value of this particular painting—“if,” added the scrupulously polite banker, “attendance at the sale would not interfere with the arrangements for your departure, which I know is imminent.”
This proviso might have sounded rather satirically in Will’s ear if he had been in a mood to care about such satire. It referred to an understanding entered into many weeks before with the proprietors of the paper, that he should be at liberty any day he pleased to hand over the management to the subeditor whom he had been training; since he wished finally to quit Middlemarch. But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still—very wonderful things have happened! Will did not confess this weakness to himself, but he lingered. What was the use of going to London at that time of the year? The Rugby men who would remember him were not there; and so far as political writing was concerned, he would rather for a few weeks go on with the “Pioneer.” At the present moment, however, when Mr. Bulstrode was speaking to him, he had both a strengthened resolve to go and an equally strong resolve not to go till he had once more seen Dorothea. Hence he replied that he had reasons for deferring his departure a little, and would be happy to go to the sale.
Will was in a defiant mood, his consciousness being deeply stung with the thought that the people who looked at him probably knew a fact tantamount to an accusation against him as a fellow with low designs which were to be frustrated by a disposal of property. Like most people who assert their freedom with regard to conventional distinction, he was prepared to be sudden and quick at quarrel with any one who might hint that he had personal reasons for that assertion—that there was anything in his blood, his bearing, or his character to which he gave the mask of an opinion. When he was under an irritating impression of this kind he would go about for days with a defiant look, the color changing in his transparent skin as if he were on the qui vive, watching for something which he had to dart upon.
This expression was peculiarly noticeable in him at the sale, and those who had only seen him in his moods of gentle oddity or of bright enjoyment would have been struck with a contrast. He was not sorry to have this occasion for appearing in public before the Middlemarch tribes of Toller, Hackbutt, and the rest, who looked down on him as an adventurer, and were in a state of brutal ignorance about Dante—who sneered at his Polish blood, and were themselves of a breed very much in need of crossing. He stood in a conspicuous place not far from the auctioneer, with a fore-finger in each side-pocket and his head thrown backward, not caring to speak to anybody, though he had been cordially welcomed as a connoissure by Mr. Trumbull, who was enjoying the utmost activity of his great faculties.
And surely among all men whose vocation requires them to exhibit their powers of speech, the happiest is a prosperous provincial auctioneer keenly alive to his own jokes and sensible of his encyclopedic knowledge. Some saturnine, sour-blooded persons might object to be constantly insisting on the merits of all articles from boot-jacks to “Berghems;” but Mr. Borthrop Trumbull had a kindly liquid in his veins; he was an admirer by nature, and would have liked to have the universe under his hammer, feeling that it would go at a higher figure for his recommendation.
Meanwhile Mrs. Larcher’s drawing-room furniture was enough for him. When Will Ladislaw had come in, a second fender, said to have been forgotten in its right place, suddenly claimed the auctioneer’s enthusiasm, which he distributed on the equitable principle of praising those things most which were most in need of praise. The fender was of polished steel, with much lancet-shaped open-work and a sharp edge.
“Now, ladies,” said he, “I shall appeal to you. Here is a fender which at any other sale would hardly be offered with out reserve, being, as I may say, for quality of steel and quaintness of design, a kind of thing”—here Mr. Trumbull dropped his voice and became slightly nasal, trimming his outlines with his left finger—“that might not fall in with ordinary tastes. Allow me to tell you that by-and-by this style of workmanship will be the only one in vogue—half-a-crown, you said? thank you—going at half-a-crown, this characteristic fender; and I have particular information that the antique style is very much sought after in high quarters. Three shillings—three-and-sixpence—hold it well up, Joseph! Look, ladies, at the chastity of the design—I have no doubt myself that it was turned out in the last century! Four shillings, Mr. Mawmsey?—four shillings.”
“It’s not a thing I would put in my drawing-room,” said Mrs. Mawmsey, audibly, for the warning of the rash husband. “I wonder at Mrs. Larcher. Every blessed child’s head that fell against it would be cut in two. The edge is like a knife.”
“Quite true,” rejoined Mr. Trumbull, quickly, “and most uncommonly useful to have a fender at hand that will cut, if you have a leather shoe-tie or a bit of string that wants cutting and no knife at hand: many a man has been left hanging because there was no knife to cut him down. Gentlemen, here’s a fender that if you had the misfortune to hang yourselves would cut you down in no time—with astonishing celerity—four-and-sixpence—five—five-and-sixpence—an appropriate thing for a spare bedroom where there was a four-poster and a guest a little out of his mind—six shillings—thank you, Mr. Clintup—going at six shillings—going—gone!” The auctioneer’s glance, which had been searching round him with a preternatural susceptibility to all signs of bidding, here dropped on the paper before him, and his voice too dropped into a tone of indifferent despatch as he said, “Mr. Clintup. Be handy, Joseph.”
“It was worth six shillings to have a fender you could always tell that joke on,” said Mr. Clintup, laughing low and apologetically to his next neighbor. He was a diffident though distinguished nurseryman, and feared that the audience might regard his bid as a foolish one.
Meanwhile Joseph had brought a trayful of small articles. “Now, ladies,” said Mr. Trumbull, taking up one of the articles, “this tray contains a very recherchy lot—a collection of trifles for the drawing-room table—and trifles make the sum of human things—nothing more important than trifles—(yes, Mr. Ladislaw, yes, by-and-by)—but pass the tray round, Joseph—these bijoux must be examined, ladies. This I have in my hand is an ingenious contrivance—a sort of practical rebus, I may call it: here, you see, it looks like an elegant heart-shaped box, portable—for the pocket; there, again, it becomes like a splendid double flower—an ornament for the table; and now”—Mr. Trumbull allowed the flower to fall alarmingly into strings of heart-shaped leaves—“a book of riddles! No less than five hundred printed in a beautiful red. Gentlemen, if I had less of a conscience, I should not wish you to bid high for this lot—I have a longing for it myself. What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?—it hinders profane language, and attaches a man to the society of refined females. This ingenious article itself, without the elegant domino-box, card-basket, &c., ought alone to give a high price to the lot. Carried in the pocket it might make an individual welcome in any society. Four shillings, sir?—four shillings for this remarkable collection of riddles with the et caeteras. Here is a sample: ‘How must you spell honey to make it catch lady-birds? Answer—money.’ You hear?—lady-birds—honey money. This is an amusement to sharpen the intellect; it has a sting—it has what we call satire, and wit without indecency. Four-and-sixpence—five shillings.”
The bidding ran on with warming rivalry. Mr. Bowyer was a bidder, and this was too exasperating. Bowyer couldn’t afford it, and only wanted to hinder every other man from making a figure. The current carried even Mr. Horrock with it, but this committal of himself to an opinion fell from him with so little sacrifice of his neutral expression, that the bid might not have been detected as his but for the friendly oaths of Mr. Bambridge, who wanted to know what Horrock would do with blasted stuff only fit for haberdashers given over to that state of perdition which the horse-dealer so cordially recognized in the majority of earthly existences. The lot was finally knocked down at a guinea to Mr. Spilkins, a young Slender of the neighborhood, who was reckless with his pocket-money and felt his want of memory for riddles.
“Come, Trumbull, this is too bad—you’ve been putting some old maid’s rubbish into the sale,” murmured Mr. Toller, getting close to the auctioneer. “I want to see how the prints go, and I must be off soon.”
“Immediately, Mr. Toller. It was only an act of benevolence which your noble heart would approve. Joseph! quick with the prints—Lot 235. Now, gentlemen, you who are connoissures, you are going to have a treat. Here is an engraving of the Duke of Wellington surrounded by his staff on the Field of Waterloo; and notwithstanding recent events which have, as it were, enveloped our great Hero in a cloud, I will be bold to say—for a man in my line must not be blown about by political winds—that a finer subject—of the modern order, belonging to our own time and epoch—the understanding of man could hardly conceive: angels might, perhaps, but not men, sirs, not men.”
“Who painted it?” said Mr. Powderell, much impressed.
“It is a proof before the letter, Mr. Powderell—the painter is not known,” answered Trumbull, with a certain gaspingness in his last words, after which he pursed up his lips and stared round him.
“I’ll bid a pound!” said Mr. Powderell, in a tone of resolved emotion, as of a man ready to put himself in the breach. Whether from awe or pity, nobody raised the price on him.
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- Middlemarch - 53Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3243Total number of unique words is 111449.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words66.2 of words are in the 5000 most common words74.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 54Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3087Total number of unique words is 99555.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words73.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 55Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3270Total number of unique words is 108053.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words70.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 56Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3296Total number of unique words is 107456.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words75.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words81.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 57Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3287Total number of unique words is 95661.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words75.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words82.0 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 58Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3335Total number of unique words is 92260.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words77.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words84.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 59Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3337Total number of unique words is 105455.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words69.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words77.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 60Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3289Total number of unique words is 99356.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words72.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 61Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3362Total number of unique words is 97758.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words74.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 62Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3376Total number of unique words is 107556.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words73.0 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.7 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 63Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3391Total number of unique words is 109655.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words70.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words76.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 64Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3356Total number of unique words is 98560.9 of words are in the 2000 most common words76.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words83.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 65Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3278Total number of unique words is 108253.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words70.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words77.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 66Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3358Total number of unique words is 92859.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words74.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.7 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 67Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3231Total number of unique words is 101059.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words74.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words81.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 68Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3251Total number of unique words is 101458.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words74.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words82.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 69Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3389Total number of unique words is 112353.8 of words are in the 2000 most common words74.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words82.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 70Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3201Total number of unique words is 97059.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words76.2 of words are in the 5000 most common words82.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 71Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3128Total number of unique words is 108653.5 of words are in the 2000 most common words70.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 72Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3322Total number of unique words is 107257.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words73.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words81.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 73Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3290Total number of unique words is 107653.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words72.0 of words are in the 5000 most common words79.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 74Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3363Total number of unique words is 100460.4 of words are in the 2000 most common words77.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words83.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 75Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3324Total number of unique words is 99662.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words78.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words84.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 76Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3261Total number of unique words is 103157.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words75.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words81.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 77Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3401Total number of unique words is 96461.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words77.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words83.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 78Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3396Total number of unique words is 102258.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words75.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.8 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 79Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3462Total number of unique words is 103358.0 of words are in the 2000 most common words75.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words82.0 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 80Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3287Total number of unique words is 105955.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words76.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words84.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 81Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3402Total number of unique words is 109957.9 of words are in the 2000 most common words75.2 of words are in the 5000 most common words83.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 82Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3317Total number of unique words is 96961.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words78.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words84.7 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 83Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3308Total number of unique words is 104458.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words75.0 of words are in the 5000 most common words81.9 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 84Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3270Total number of unique words is 103058.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words75.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words82.3 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 85Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3244Total number of unique words is 103954.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words69.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words76.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 86Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3316Total number of unique words is 103057.5 of words are in the 2000 most common words73.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 87Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3223Total number of unique words is 97156.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words73.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words80.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 88Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3334Total number of unique words is 106658.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words77.0 of words are in the 5000 most common words83.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 89Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3279Total number of unique words is 95561.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words80.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words86.7 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 90Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3406Total number of unique words is 91565.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words80.7 of words are in the 5000 most common words85.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 91Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3271Total number of unique words is 102856.1 of words are in the 2000 most common words75.5 of words are in the 5000 most common words83.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 92Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3296Total number of unique words is 107556.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words74.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words82.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 93Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3247Total number of unique words is 97659.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words76.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words82.6 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 94Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 2936Total number of unique words is 92761.9 of words are in the 2000 most common words76.9 of words are in the 5000 most common words84.2 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 95Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3395Total number of unique words is 97160.6 of words are in the 2000 most common words78.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words84.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 96Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3204Total number of unique words is 83763.7 of words are in the 2000 most common words78.3 of words are in the 5000 most common words83.0 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 97Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 3148Total number of unique words is 99657.2 of words are in the 2000 most common words71.8 of words are in the 5000 most common words78.4 of words are in the 8000 most common words
- Middlemarch - 98Each bar represents the percentage of words per 1000 most common words.Total number of words is 2633Total number of unique words is 92257.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words76.4 of words are in the 5000 most common words83.1 of words are in the 8000 most common words