Book Notes: George Eliot's Middlemarch

Posted by Chris

I've finished Butler's The Way of All Flesh and am now 200 pages into George Eliot's Middlemarch. The following is from the latter:

" . . . I don't like Casaubon." This was Sir James's strongest way of implying that he thought ill of a man's character.

"Why? what do you know against him?" said the Rector, laying down his reels, and putting his thumbs into his arm-holes with an air of attention.

Sir James paused. He did not usually find it easy to give his reasons: it seemed to him strange that people should not know them without being told, since he only felt what was reasonable.

Sir James is not alone in this, I think.

Posted by Chris at July 25, 2004 02:34 PM