Middlemarch - 85

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Mr. Hawley was not slow to perceive that there was no handle for the law either in the revelations made by Raffles or in the circumstances of his death. He had himself ridden to Lowick village that he might look at the register and talk over the whole matter with Mr. Farebrother, who was not more surprised than the lawyer that an ugly secret should have come to light about Bulstrode, though he had always had justice enough in him to hinder his antipathy from turning into conclusions. But while they were talking another combination was silently going forward in Mr. Farebrother’s mind, which foreshadowed what was soon to be loudly spoken of in Middlemarch as a necessary “putting of two and two together.” With the reasons which kept Bulstrode in dread of Raffles there flashed the thought that the dread might have something to do with his munificence towards his medical man; and though he resisted the suggestion that it had been consciously accepted in any way as a bribe, he had a foreboding that this complication of things might be of malignant effect on Lydgate’s reputation. He perceived that Mr. Hawley knew nothing at present of the sudden relief from debt, and he himself was careful to glide away from all approaches towards the subject.

“Well,” he said, with a deep breath, wanting to wind up the illimitable discussion of what might have been, though nothing could be legally proven, “it is a strange story. So our mercurial Ladislaw has a queer genealogy! A high-spirited young lady and a musical Polish patriot made a likely enough stock for him to spring from, but I should never have suspected a grafting of the Jew pawnbroker. However, there’s no knowing what a mixture will turn out beforehand. Some sorts of dirt serve to clarify.”

“It’s just what I should have expected,” said Mr. Hawley, mounting his horse. “Any cursed alien blood, Jew, Corsican, or Gypsy.”

“I know he’s one of your black sheep, Hawley. But he is really a disinterested, unworldly fellow,” said Mr. Farebrother, smiling.

“Ay, ay, that is your Whiggish twist,” said Mr. Hawley, who had been in the habit of saying apologetically that Farebrother was such a damned pleasant good-hearted fellow you would mistake him for a Tory.

Mr. Hawley rode home without thinking of Lydgate’s attendance on Raffles in any other light than as a piece of evidence on the side of Bulstrode. But the news that Lydgate had all at once become able not only to get rid of the execution in his house but to pay all his debts in Middlemarch was spreading fast, gathering round it conjectures and comments which gave it new body and impetus, and soon filling the ears of other persons besides Mr. Hawley, who were not slow to see a significant relation between this sudden command of money and Bulstrode’s desire to stifle the scandal of Raffles. That the money came from Bulstrode would infallibly have been guessed even if there had been no direct evidence of it; for it had beforehand entered into the gossip about Lydgate’s affairs, that neither his father-in-law nor his own family would do anything for him, and direct evidence was furnished not only by a clerk at the Bank, but by innocent Mrs. Bulstrode herself, who mentioned the loan to Mrs. Plymdale, who mentioned it to her daughter-in-law of the house of Toller, who mentioned it generally. The business was felt to be so public and important that it required dinners to feed it, and many invitations were just then issued and accepted on the strength of this scandal concerning Bulstrode and Lydgate; wives, widows, and single ladies took their work and went out to tea oftener than usual; and all public conviviality, from the Green Dragon to Dollop’s, gathered a zest which could not be won from the question whether the Lords would throw out the Reform Bill.

For hardly anybody doubted that some scandalous reason or other was at the bottom of Bulstrode’s liberality to Lydgate. Mr. Hawley indeed, in the first instance, invited a select party, including the two physicians, with Mr Toller and Mr. Wrench, expressly to hold a close discussion as to the probabilities of Raffles’s illness, reciting to them all the particulars which had been gathered from Mrs. Abel in connection with Lydgate’s certificate, that the death was due to delirium tremens; and the medical gentlemen, who all stood undisturbedly on the old paths in relation to this disease, declared that they could see nothing in these particulars which could be transformed into a positive ground of suspicion. But the moral grounds of suspicion remained: the strong motives Bulstrode clearly had for wishing to be rid of Raffles, and the fact that at this critical moment he had given Lydgate the help which he must for some time have known the need for; the disposition, moreover, to believe that Bulstrode would be unscrupulous, and the absence of any indisposition to believe that Lydgate might be as easily bribed as other haughty-minded men when they have found themselves in want of money. Even if the money had been given merely to make him hold his tongue about the scandal of Bulstrode’s earlier life, the fact threw an odious light on Lydgate, who had long been sneered at as making himself subservient to the banker for the sake of working himself into predominance, and discrediting the elder members of his profession. Hence, in spite of the negative as to any direct sign of guilt in relation to the death at Stone Court, Mr. Hawley’s select party broke up with the sense that the affair had “an ugly look.”

But this vague conviction of indeterminable guilt, which was enough to keep up much head-shaking and biting innuendo even among substantial professional seniors, had for the general mind all the superior power of mystery over fact. Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible. Even the more definite scandal concerning Bulstrode’s earlier life was, for some minds, melted into the mass of mystery, as so much lively metal to be poured out in dialogue, and to take such fantastic shapes as heaven pleased.

This was the tone of thought chiefly sanctioned by Mrs. Dollop, the spirited landlady of the Tankard in Slaughter Lane, who had often to resist the shallow pragmatism of customers disposed to think that their reports from the outer world were of equal force with what had “come up” in her mind. How it had been brought to her she didn’t know, but it was there before her as if it had been “scored with the chalk on the chimney-board—” as Bulstrode should say, “his inside was that black as if the hairs of his head knowed the thoughts of his heart, he’d tear ’em up by the roots.”

“That’s odd,” said Mr. Limp, a meditative shoemaker, with weak eyes and a piping voice. “Why, I read in the ‘Trumpet’ that was what the Duke of Wellington said when he turned his coat and went over to the Romans.”

“Very like,” said Mrs. Dollop. “If one raskill said it, it’s more reason why another should. But hypocrite as he’s been, and holding things with that high hand, as there was no parson i’ the country good enough for him, he was forced to take Old Harry into his counsel, and Old Harry’s been too many for him.”

“Ay, ay, he’s a ’complice you can’t send out o’ the country,” said Mr. Crabbe, the glazier, who gathered much news and groped among it dimly. “But by what I can make out, there’s them says Bulstrode was for running away, for fear o’ being found out, before now.”

“He’ll be drove away, whether or no,” said Mr. Dill, the barber, who had just dropped in. “I shaved Fletcher, Hawley’s clerk, this morning—he’s got a bad finger—and he says they’re all of one mind to get rid of Bulstrode. Mr. Thesiger is turned against him, and wants him out o’ the parish. And there’s gentlemen in this town says they’d as soon dine with a fellow from the hulks. ‘And a deal sooner I would,’ says Fletcher; ‘for what’s more against one’s stomach than a man coming and making himself bad company with his religion, and giving out as the Ten Commandments are not enough for him, and all the while he’s worse than half the men at the tread-mill?’ Fletcher said so himself.”

“It’ll be a bad thing for the town though, if Bulstrode’s money goes out of it,” said Mr. Limp, quaveringly.

“Ah, there’s better folks spend their money worse,” said a firm-voiced dyer, whose crimson hands looked out of keeping with his good-natured face.

“But he won’t keep his money, by what I can make out,” said the glazier. “Don’t they say as there’s somebody can strip it off him? By what I can understan’, they could take every penny off him, if they went to lawing.”

“No such thing!” said the barber, who felt himself a little above his company at Dollop’s, but liked it none the worse. “Fletcher says it’s no such thing. He says they might prove over and over again whose child this young Ladislaw was, and they’d do no more than if they proved I came out of the Fens—he couldn’t touch a penny.”

“Look you there now!” said Mrs. Dollop, indignantly. “I thank the Lord he took my children to Himself, if that’s all the law can do for the motherless. Then by that, it’s o’ no use who your father and mother is. But as to listening to what one lawyer says without asking another—I wonder at a man o’ your cleverness, Mr. Dill. It’s well known there’s always two sides, if no more; else who’d go to law, I should like to know? It’s a poor tale, with all the law as there is up and down, if it’s no use proving whose child you are. Fletcher may say that if he likes, but I say, don’t Fletcher me!”

Mr. Dill affected to laugh in a complimentary way at Mrs. Dollop, as a woman who was more than a match for the lawyers; being disposed to submit to much twitting from a landlady who had a long score against him.

“If they come to lawing, and it’s all true as folks say, there’s more to be looked to nor money,” said the glazier. “There’s this poor creetur as is dead and gone; by what I can make out, he’d seen the day when he was a deal finer gentleman nor Bulstrode.”

“Finer gentleman! I’ll warrant him,” said Mrs. Dollop; “and a far personabler man, by what I can hear. As I said when Mr. Baldwin, the tax-gatherer, comes in, a-standing where you sit, and says, ‘Bulstrode got all his money as he brought into this town by thieving and swindling,’—I said, ‘You don’t make me no wiser, Mr. Baldwin: it’s set my blood a-creeping to look at him ever sin’ here he came into Slaughter Lane a-wanting to buy the house over my head: folks don’t look the color o’ the dough-tub and stare at you as if they wanted to see into your backbone for nothingk.’ That was what I said, and Mr. Baldwin can bear me witness.”

“And in the rights of it too,” said Mr. Crabbe. “For by what I can make out, this Raffles, as they call him, was a lusty, fresh-colored man as you’d wish to see, and the best o’ company—though dead he lies in Lowick churchyard sure enough; and by what I can understan’, there’s them knows more than they should know about how he got there.”

“I’ll believe you!” said Mrs. Dollop, with a touch of scorn at Mr. Crabbe’s apparent dimness. “When a man’s been ’ticed to a lone house, and there’s them can pay for hospitals and nurses for half the country-side choose to be sitters-up night and day, and nobody to come near but a doctor as is known to stick at nothingk, and as poor as he can hang together, and after that so flush o’ money as he can pay off Mr. Byles the butcher as his bill has been running on for the best o’ joints since last Michaelmas was a twelvemonth—I don’t want anybody to come and tell me as there’s been more going on nor the Prayer-book’s got a service for—I don’t want to stand winking and blinking and thinking.”

Mrs. Dollop looked round with the air of a landlady accustomed to dominate her company. There was a chorus of adhesion from the more courageous; but Mr. Limp, after taking a draught, placed his flat hands together and pressed them hard between his knees, looking down at them with blear-eyed contemplation, as if the scorching power of Mrs. Dollop’s speech had quite dried up and nullified his wits until they could be brought round again by further moisture.

“Why shouldn’t they dig the man up and have the Crowner?” said the dyer. “It’s been done many and many’s the time. If there’s been foul play they might find it out.”

“Not they, Mr. Jonas!” said Mrs Dollop, emphatically. “I know what doctors are. They’re a deal too cunning to be found out. And this Doctor Lydgate that’s been for cutting up everybody before the breath was well out o’ their body—it’s plain enough what use he wanted to make o’ looking into respectable people’s insides. He knows drugs, you may be sure, as you can neither smell nor see, neither before they’re swallowed nor after. Why, I’ve seen drops myself ordered by Doctor Gambit, as is our club doctor and a good charikter, and has brought more live children into the world nor ever another i’ Middlemarch—I say I’ve seen drops myself as made no difference whether they was in the glass or out, and yet have griped you the next day. So I’ll leave your own sense to judge. Don’t tell me! All I say is, it’s a mercy they didn’t take this Doctor Lydgate on to our club. There’s many a mother’s child might ha’ rued it.”

The heads of this discussion at “Dollop’s” had been the common theme among all classes in the town, had been carried to Lowick Parsonage on one side and to Tipton Grange on the other, had come fully to the ears of the Vincy family, and had been discussed with sad reference to “poor Harriet” by all Mrs. Bulstrode’s friends, before Lydgate knew distinctly why people were looking strangely at him, and before Bulstrode himself suspected the betrayal of his secrets. He had not been accustomed to very cordial relations with his neighbors, and hence he could not miss the signs of cordiality; moreover, he had been taking journeys on business of various kinds, having now made up his mind that he need not quit Middlemarch, and feeling able consequently to determine on matters which he had before left in suspense.

“We will make a journey to Cheltenham in the course of a month or two,” he had said to his wife. “There are great spiritual advantages to be had in that town along with the air and the waters, and six weeks there will be eminently refreshing to us.”

He really believed in the spiritual advantages, and meant that his life henceforth should be the more devoted because of those later sins which he represented to himself as hypothetic, praying hypothetically for their pardon:—“if I have herein transgressed.”

As to the Hospital, he avoided saying anything further to Lydgate, fearing to manifest a too sudden change of plans immediately on the death of Raffles. In his secret soul he believed that Lydgate suspected his orders to have been intentionally disobeyed, and suspecting this he must also suspect a motive. But nothing had been betrayed to him as to the history of Raffles, and Bulstrode was anxious not to do anything which would give emphasis to his undefined suspicions. As to any certainty that a particular method of treatment would either save or kill, Lydgate himself was constantly arguing against such dogmatism; he had no right to speak, and he had every motive for being silent. Hence Bulstrode felt himself providentially secured. The only incident he had strongly winced under had been an occasional encounter with Caleb Garth, who, however, had raised his hat with mild gravity.

Meanwhile, on the part of the principal townsmen a strong determination was growing against him.

A meeting was to be held in the Town-Hall on a sanitary question which had risen into pressing importance by the occurrence of a cholera case in the town. Since the Act of Parliament, which had been hurriedly passed, authorizing assessments for sanitary measures, there had been a Board for the superintendence of such measures appointed in Middlemarch, and much cleansing and preparation had been concurred in by Whigs and Tories. The question now was, whether a piece of ground outside the town should be secured as a burial-ground by means of assessment or by private subscription. The meeting was to be open, and almost everybody of importance in the town was expected to be there.

Mr. Bulstrode was a member of the Board, and just before twelve o’clock he started from the Bank with the intention of urging the plan of private subscription. Under the hesitation of his projects, he had for some time kept himself in the background, and he felt that he should this morning resume his old position as a man of action and influence in the public affairs of the town where he expected to end his days. Among the various persons going in the same direction, he saw Lydgate; they joined, talked over the object of the meeting, and entered it together.

It seemed that everybody of mark had been earlier than they. But there were still spaces left near the head of the large central table, and they made their way thither. Mr. Farebrother sat opposite, not far from Mr. Hawley; all the medical men were there; Mr. Thesiger was in the chair, and Mr. Brooke of Tipton was on his right hand.

Lydgate noticed a peculiar interchange of glances when he and Bulstrode took their seats.

After the business had been fully opened by the chairman, who pointed out the advantages of purchasing by subscription a piece of ground large enough to be ultimately used as a general cemetery, Mr. Bulstrode, whose rather high-pitched but subdued and fluent voice the town was used to at meetings of this sort, rose and asked leave to deliver his opinion. Lydgate could see again the peculiar interchange of glances before Mr. Hawley started up, and said in his firm resonant voice, “Mr. Chairman, I request that before any one delivers his opinion on this point I may be permitted to speak on a question of public feeling, which not only by myself, but by many gentlemen present, is regarded as preliminary.”

Mr. Hawley’s mode of speech, even when public decorum repressed his “awful language,” was formidable in its curtness and self-possession. Mr. Thesiger sanctioned the request, Mr. Bulstrode sat down, and Mr. Hawley continued.

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  • Middlemarch - 41
    Total number of words is 3217
    Total number of unique words is 1070
    54.3 of words are in the 2000 most common words
    71.1 of words are in the 5000 most common words
    77.0 of words are in the 8000 most common words
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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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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.