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“ Dodo , how very bright your eyes are ! ” said Celia , when Sir James was gone out of the room . “ And you don’t see anything you look at , Arthur or anything . You are going to do something uncomfortable , I know . Is it all about Mr . Lydgate , or has something else happened ? ” Celia had been used to watch her sister with expectation . “ Yes , dear , a great many things have happened , ” said Dodo , in her full tones . “ I wonder what , ” said Celia , folding her arms cozily and leaning forward upon them . “ Oh , all the troubles of all people on the face of the earth , ” said Dorothea , lifting her arms to the back of her head . “ Dear me , Dodo , are you going to have a scheme for them ? ” said Celia , a little uneasy at this Hamlet - like raving . But Sir James came in again , ready to accompany Dorothea to the Grange , and she finished her expedition well , not swerving in her resolution until she descended at her own door . CHAPTER LXXVIII . “ Would it were yesterday and I i ’ the grave , With her sweet faith above for monument . ” Rosamond and Will stood motionless — they did not know how long — he looking towards the spot where Dorothea had stood , and she looking towards him with doubt . It seemed an endless time to Rosamond , in whose inmost soul there was hardly so much annoyance as gratification from what had just happened . Shallow natures dream of an easy sway over the emotions of others , trusting implicitly in their own petty magic to turn the deepest streams , and confident , by pretty gestures and remarks , of making the thing that is not as though it were . She knew that Will had received a severe blow , but she had been little used to imagining other people’s states of mind except as a material cut into shape by her own wishes ; and she believed in her own power to soothe or subdue . Even Tertius , that most perverse of men , was always subdued in the long - run : events had been obstinate , but still Rosamond would have said now , as she did before her marriage , that she never gave up what she had set her mind on . She put out her arm and laid the tips of her fingers on Will’s coat - sleeve . “ Don’t touch me ! ” he said , with an utterance like the cut of a lash , darting from her , and changing from pink to white and back again , as if his whole frame were tingling with the pain of the sting . He wheeled round to the other side of the room and stood opposite to her , with the tips of his fingers in his pockets and his head thrown back , looking fiercely not at Rosamond but at a point a few inches away from her .
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