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It came shortly before the memorable meeting at the town-hall, and was nothing less than a letter from Will Ladislaw to Lydgate, which turned indeed chiefly on his new interest in plans of colonization, but mentioned incidentally, that he might find it necessary to pay a visit to Middlemarch within the next few weeks—a very pleasant necessity, he said, almost as good as holidays to a schoolboy. He hoped there was his old place on the rug, and a great deal of music in store for him. But he was quite uncertain as to the time. While Lydgate was reading the letter to Rosamond, her face looked like a reviving flower—it grew prettier and more blooming. There was nothing unendurable now: the debts were paid, Mr. Ladislaw was coming, and Lydgate would be persuaded to leave Middlemarch and settle in London, which was “so different from a provincial town.”

That was a bright bit of morning. But soon the sky became black over poor Rosamond. The presence of a new gloom in her husband, about which he was entirely reserved towards her—for he dreaded to expose his lacerated feeling to her neutrality and misconception—soon received a painfully strange explanation, alien to all her previous notions of what could affect her happiness. In the new gayety of her spirits, thinking that Lydgate had merely a worse fit of moodiness than usual, causing him to leave her remarks unanswered, and evidently to keep out of her way as much as possible, she chose, a few days after the meeting, and without speaking to him on the subject, to send out notes of invitation for a small evening party, feeling convinced that this was a judicious step, since people seemed to have been keeping aloof from them, and wanted restoring to the old habit of intercourse. When the invitations had been accepted, she would tell Lydgate, and give him a wise admonition as to how a medical man should behave to his neighbors; for Rosamond had the gravest little airs possible about other people’s duties. But all the invitations were declined, and the last answer came into Lydgate’s hands.

“This is Chichely’s scratch. What is he writing to you about?” said Lydgate, wonderingly, as he handed the note to her. She was obliged to let him see it, and, looking at her severely, he said—

“Why on earth have you been sending out invitations without telling me, Rosamond? I beg, I insist that you will not invite any one to this house. I suppose you have been inviting others, and they have refused too.” She said nothing.

“Do you hear me?” thundered Lydgate.

“Yes, certainly I hear you,” said Rosamond, turning her head aside with the movement of a graceful long-necked bird.

Lydgate tossed his head without any grace and walked out of the room, feeling himself dangerous. Rosamond’s thought was, that he was getting more and more unbearable—not that there was any new special reason for this peremptoriness. His indisposition to tell her anything in which he was sure beforehand that she would not be interested was growing into an unreflecting habit, and she was in ignorance of everything connected with the thousand pounds except that the loan had come from her uncle Bulstrode. Lydgate’s odious humors and their neighbors’ apparent avoidance of them had an unaccountable date for her in their relief from money difficulties. If the invitations had been accepted she would have gone to invite her mamma and the rest, whom she had seen nothing of for several days; and she now put on her bonnet to go and inquire what had become of them all, suddenly feeling as if there were a conspiracy to leave her in isolation with a husband disposed to offend everybody. It was after the dinner hour, and she found her father and mother seated together alone in the drawing-room. They greeted her with sad looks, saying “Well, my dear!” and no more. She had never seen her father look so downcast; and seating herself near him she said—

“Is there anything the matter, papa?”

He did not answer, but Mrs. Vincy said, “Oh, my dear, have you heard nothing? It won’t be long before it reaches you.”

“Is it anything about Tertius?” said Rosamond, turning pale. The idea of trouble immediately connected itself with what had been unaccountable to her in him.

“Oh, my dear, yes. To think of your marrying into this trouble. Debt was bad enough, but this will be worse.”

“Stay, stay, Lucy,” said Mr. Vincy. “Have you heard nothing about your uncle Bulstrode, Rosamond?”

“No, papa,” said the poor thing, feeling as if trouble were not anything she had before experienced, but some invisible power with an iron grasp that made her soul faint within her.

Her father told her everything, saying at the end, “It’s better for you to know, my dear. I think Lydgate must leave the town. Things have gone against him. I dare say he couldn’t help it. I don’t accuse him of any harm,” said Mr. Vincy. He had always before been disposed to find the utmost fault with Lydgate.

The shock to Rosamond was terrible. It seemed to her that no lot could be so cruelly hard as hers to have married a man who had become the centre of infamous suspicions. In many cases it is inevitable that the shame is felt to be the worst part of crime; and it would have required a great deal of disentangling reflection, such as had never entered into Rosamond’s life, for her in these moments to feel that her trouble was less than if her husband had been certainly known to have done something criminal. All the shame seemed to be there. And she had innocently married this man with the belief that he and his family were a glory to her! She showed her usual reticence to her parents, and only said, that if Lydgate had done as she wished he would have left Middlemarch long ago.

“She bears it beyond anything,” said her mother when she was gone.

“Ah, thank God!” said Mr. Vincy, who was much broken down.

But Rosamond went home with a sense of justified repugnance towards her husband. What had he really done—how had he really acted? She did not know. Why had he not told her everything? He did not speak to her on the subject, and of course she could not speak to him. It came into her mind once that she would ask her father to let her go home again; but dwelling on that prospect made it seem utter dreariness to her: a married woman gone back to live with her parents—life seemed to have no meaning for her in such a position: she could not contemplate herself in it.

The next two days Lydgate observed a change in her, and believed that she had heard the bad news. Would she speak to him about it, or would she go on forever in the silence which seemed to imply that she believed him guilty? We must remember that he was in a morbid state of mind, in which almost all contact was pain. Certainly Rosamond in this case had equal reason to complain of reserve and want of confidence on his part; but in the bitterness of his soul he excused himself;—was he not justified in shrinking from the task of telling her, since now she knew the truth she had no impulse to speak to him? But a deeper-lying consciousness that he was in fault made him restless, and the silence between them became intolerable to him; it was as if they were both adrift on one piece of wreck and looked away from each other.

He thought, “I am a fool. Haven’t I given up expecting anything? I have married care, not help.” And that evening he said—

“Rosamond, have you heard anything that distresses you?”

“Yes,” she answered, laying down her work, which she had been carrying on with a languid semi-consciousness, most unlike her usual self.

“What have you heard?”

“Everything, I suppose. Papa told me.”

“That people think me disgraced?”

“Yes,” said Rosamond, faintly, beginning to sew again automatically.

There was silence. Lydgate thought, “If she has any trust in me—any notion of what I am, she ought to speak now and say that she does not believe I have deserved disgrace.”

But Rosamond on her side went on moving her fingers languidly. Whatever was to be said on the subject she expected to come from Tertius. What did she know? And if he were innocent of any wrong, why did he not do something to clear himself?

This silence of hers brought a new rush of gall to that bitter mood in which Lydgate had been saying to himself that nobody believed in him—even Farebrother had not come forward. He had begun to question her with the intent that their conversation should disperse the chill fog which had gathered between them, but he felt his resolution checked by despairing resentment. Even this trouble, like the rest, she seemed to regard as if it were hers alone. He was always to her a being apart, doing what she objected to. He started from his chair with an angry impulse, and thrusting his hands in his pockets, walked up and down the room. There was an underlying consciousness all the while that he should have to master this anger, and tell her everything, and convince her of the facts. For he had almost learned the lesson that he must bend himself to her nature, and that because she came short in her sympathy, he must give the more. Soon he recurred to his intention of opening himself: the occasion must not be lost. If he could bring her to feel with some solemnity that here was a slander which must be met and not run away from, and that the whole trouble had come out of his desperate want of money, it would be a moment for urging powerfully on her that they should be one in the resolve to do with as little money as possible, so that they might weather the bad time and keep themselves independent. He would mention the definite measures which he desired to take, and win her to a willing spirit. He was bound to try this—and what else was there for him to do?

He did not know how long he had been walking uneasily backwards and forwards, but Rosamond felt that it was long, and wished that he would sit down. She too had begun to think this an opportunity for urging on Tertius what he ought to do. Whatever might be the truth about all this misery, there was one dread which asserted itself.

Lydgate at last seated himself, not in his usual chair, but in one nearer to Rosamond, leaning aside in it towards her, and looking at her gravely before he reopened the sad subject. He had conquered himself so far, and was about to speak with a sense of solemnity, as on an occasion which was not to be repeated. He had even opened his lips, when Rosamond, letting her hands fall, looked at him and said—

“Surely, Tertius—”

“Well?”

“Surely now at last you have given up the idea of staying in Middlemarch. I cannot go on living here. Let us go to London. Papa, and every one else, says you had better go. Whatever misery I have to put up with, it will be easier away from here.”

Lydgate felt miserably jarred. Instead of that critical outpouring for which he had prepared himself with effort, here was the old round to be gone through again. He could not bear it. With a quick change of countenance he rose and went out of the room.

Perhaps if he had been strong enough to persist in his determination to be the more because she was less, that evening might have had a better issue. If his energy could have borne down that check, he might still have wrought on Rosamond’s vision and will. We cannot be sure that any natures, however inflexible or peculiar, will resist this effect from a more massive being than their own. They may be taken by storm and for the moment converted, becoming part of the soul which enwraps them in the ardor of its movement. But poor Lydgate had a throbbing pain within him, and his energy had fallen short of its task.

The beginning of mutual understanding and resolve seemed as far off as ever; nay, it seemed blocked out by the sense of unsuccessful effort. They lived on from day to day with their thoughts still apart, Lydgate going about what work he had in a mood of despair, and Rosamond feeling, with some justification, that he was behaving cruelly. It was of no use to say anything to Tertius; but when Will Ladislaw came, she was determined to tell him everything. In spite of her general reticence, she needed some one who would recognize her wrongs.

CHAPTER LXXVI.

To mercy, pity, peace, and love
    All pray in their distress,
And to these virtues of delight,
    Return their thankfulness.
. . . . . .
For Mercy has a human heart,
    Pity a human face;
And Love, the human form divine;
    And Peace, the human dress.
—WILLIAM BLAKE: Songs of Innocence.

Some days later, Lydgate was riding to Lowick Manor, in consequence of a summons from Dorothea. The summons had not been unexpected, since it had followed a letter from Mr. Bulstrode, in which he stated that he had resumed his arrangements for quitting Middlemarch, and must remind Lydgate of his previous communications about the Hospital, to the purport of which he still adhered. It had been his duty, before taking further steps, to reopen the subject with Mrs. Casaubon, who now wished, as before, to discuss the question with Lydgate. “Your views may possibly have undergone some change,” wrote Mr. Bulstrode; “but, in that case also, it is desirable that you should lay them before her.”

Dorothea awaited his arrival with eager interest. Though, in deference to her masculine advisers, she had refrained from what Sir James had called “interfering in this Bulstrode business,” the hardship of Lydgate’s position was continually in her mind, and when Bulstrode applied to her again about the hospital, she felt that the opportunity was come to her which she had been hindered from hastening. In her luxurious home, wandering under the boughs of her own great trees, her thought was going out over the lot of others, and her emotions were imprisoned. The idea of some active good within her reach, “haunted her like a passion,” and another’s need having once come to her as a distinct image, preoccupied her desire with the yearning to give relief, and made her own ease tasteless. She was full of confident hope about this interview with Lydgate, never heeding what was said of his personal reserve; never heeding that she was a very young woman. Nothing could have seemed more irrelevant to Dorothea than insistence on her youth and sex when she was moved to show her human fellowship.

As she sat waiting in the library, she could do nothing but live through again all the past scenes which had brought Lydgate into her memories. They all owed their significance to her marriage and its troubles—but no; there were two occasions in which the image of Lydgate had come painfully in connection with his wife and some one else. The pain had been allayed for Dorothea, but it had left in her an awakened conjecture as to what Lydgate’s marriage might be to him, a susceptibility to the slightest hint about Mrs. Lydgate. These thoughts were like a drama to her, and made her eyes bright, and gave an attitude of suspense to her whole frame, though she was only looking out from the brown library on to the turf and the bright green buds which stood in relief against the dark evergreens.

When Lydgate came in, she was almost shocked at the change in his face, which was strikingly perceptible to her who had not seen him for two months. It was not the change of emaciation, but that effect which even young faces will very soon show from the persistent presence of resentment and despondency. Her cordial look, when she put out her hand to him, softened his expression, but only with melancholy.

“I have wished very much to see you for a long while, Mr. Lydgate,” said Dorothea when they were seated opposite each other; “but I put off asking you to come until Mr. Bulstrode applied to me again about the Hospital. I know that the advantage of keeping the management of it separate from that of the Infirmary depends on you, or, at least, on the good which you are encouraged to hope for from having it under your control. And I am sure you will not refuse to tell me exactly what you think.”

“You want to decide whether you should give a generous support to the Hospital,” said Lydgate. “I cannot conscientiously advise you to do it in dependence on any activity of mine. I may be obliged to leave the town.”

He spoke curtly, feeling the ache of despair as to his being able to carry out any purpose that Rosamond had set her mind against.

“Not because there is no one to believe in you?” said Dorothea, pouring out her words in clearness from a full heart. “I know the unhappy mistakes about you. I knew them from the first moment to be mistakes. You have never done anything vile. You would not do anything dishonorable.”

It was the first assurance of belief in him that had fallen on Lydgate’s ears. He drew a deep breath, and said, “Thank you.” He could say no more: it was something very new and strange in his life that these few words of trust from a woman should be so much to him.

“I beseech you to tell me how everything was,” said Dorothea, fearlessly. “I am sure that the truth would clear you.”

Lydgate started up from his chair and went towards the window, forgetting where he was. He had so often gone over in his mind the possibility of explaining everything without aggravating appearances that would tell, perhaps unfairly, against Bulstrode, and had so often decided against it—he had so often said to himself that his assertions would not change people’s impressions—that Dorothea’s words sounded like a temptation to do something which in his soberness he had pronounced to be unreasonable.

“Tell me, pray,” said Dorothea, with simple earnestness; “then we can consult together. It is wicked to let people think evil of any one falsely, when it can be hindered.”

Lydgate turned, remembering where he was, and saw Dorothea’s face looking up at him with a sweet trustful gravity. The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character. That influence was beginning to act on Lydgate, who had for many days been seeing all life as one who is dragged and struggling amid the throng. He sat down again, and felt that he was recovering his old self in the consciousness that he was with one who believed in it.

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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
    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
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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
    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
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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.