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MIDDLEMARCH-Part74_GEORGE ELIOT(1819-1880)_English Literature(文学)-第2页

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and their eyes were on a level; but imagine Rosamond's infantine



blondness and wondrous crown of hair-plaits, with her pale-blue

dress of a fit and fashion so perfect that no dressmaker could look



at it without emotion, a large embroidered collar which it was

to be hoped all beholders would know the price of, her small hands



duly set off with rings, and that controlled self-consciousness

of manner which is the expensivesubstitute for simplicity.



"Thank you very much for allowing me to interrupt you,"

said Dorothea, immediately. "I am anxious to see Mr. Lydgate,



if possible, before I go home, and I hoped that you might possibly

tell me where I could find him, or even allow me to wait for him,



if you expect him soon."

"He is at the New Hospital," said Rosamond; "I am not sure how soon



he will come home. But I can send for him,"

"Will you let me go and fetch him?" said Will Ladislaw, coming forward.



He had already taken up his hat before Dorothea entered.

She colored with surprise, but put out her hand with a smile



of unmistakable pleasure, saying--

"I did not know it was you: I had no thought of seeing you here."



"May I go to the Hospital and tell Mr. Lydgate that you wish

to see him?" said Will.



"It would be quicker to send the carriage for him," said Dorothea,

"if you will be kind enough to give the message to the coachman."



Will was moving to the door when Dorothea, whose mind had flashed

in an instant over many connected memories, turned quickly and said,



"I will go myself, thank you. I wish to lose no time before getting

home again. I will drive to the Hospital and see Mr. Lydgate there.



Pray excuse me, Mrs. Lydgate. I am very much obliged to you."

Her mind was evidentlyarrested by some sudden thought, and she



left the room hardly conscious of what was immediately around her--

hardly conscious that Will opened the door for her and offered her his



arm to lead her to the carriage. She took the arm but said nothing.

Will was feeling rather vexed and miserable, and found nothing



to say on his side. He handed her into the carriage in silence,

they said good-by, and Dorothea drove away.



In the five minutes' drive to the Hospital she had time for some

reflections that were quite new to her. Her decision to go, and her



preoccupation in leaving the room, had come from the sudden sense

that there would be a sort of deception in her voluntarily allowing



any further intercourse between herself and Will which she was unable

to mention to her husband, and already her errand in seeking Lydgate



was a matter of concealment. That was all that had been explicitly

in her mind; but she had been urged also by a vague discomfort.



Now that she was alone in her drive, she heard the notes of the man's

voice and the accompanying piano, which she had not noted much



at the time, returning on her inward sense; and she found herself

thinking with some wonder that Will Ladislaw was passing his time



with Mrs. Lydgate in her husband's absence. And then she could

not help remembering that he had passed some time with her under



like circumstances, so why should there be any unfitness in the fact?

But Will was Mr. Casaubon's relative, and one towards whom she was



bound to show kindness. Still there had been signs which perhaps

she ought to have understood as implying that Mr. Casaubon did



not like his cousin's visits during his own absence. "Perhaps I

have been mistaken in many things," said poor Dorothea to herself,



while the tears came rolling and she had to dry them quickly.

She felt confusedly unhappy, and the image of Will which had been



so clear to her before was mysteriously spoiled. But the carriage

stopped at the gate of the Hospital. She was soon walking round



the grass plots with Lydgate, and her feelings recovered the strong

bent which had made her seek for this interview.



Will Ladislaw, meanwhile, was mortified, and knew the reason

of it clearly enough. His chances of meeting Dorothea were rare;



and here for the first time there had come a chance which had set

him at a disadvantage. It was not only, as it had been hitherto,



that she was not supremely occupied with him, but that she had seen

him under circumstances in which he might appear not to be supremely



occupied with her. He felt thrust to a new distance from her,

amongst the circles of Middlemarchers who made no part of her life.



But that was not his fault: of course, since he had taken his lodgings

in the town, he had been making as many acquaintances as he could,



his position requiring that he should know everybody and everything.




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