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We are all of us born in moral stupidity , taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves : Dorothea had early begun to emerge from that stupidity , but yet it had been easier to her to imagine how she would devote herself to Mr . Casaubon , and become wise and strong in his strength and wisdom , than to conceive with that distinctness which is no longer reflection but feeling — an idea wrought back to the directness of sense , like the solidity of objects — that he had an equivalent centre of self , whence the lights and shadows must always fall with a certain difference . CHAPTER XXII . “ Nous câusames longtemps ; elle était simple et bonne . Ne sachant pas le mal , elle faisait le bien ; Des richesses du coeur elle me fit l’aumône , Et tout en écoutant comme le coeur se donne , Sans oser y penser je lui donnai le mien ; Elle emporta ma vie , et n’en sut jamais rien . ” — ALFRED DE MUSSET . Will Ladislaw was delightfully agreeable at dinner the next day , and gave no opportunity for Mr . Casaubon to show disapprobation . On the contrary it seemed to Dorothea that Will had a happier way of drawing her husband into conversation and of deferentially listening to him than she had ever observed in any one before . To be sure , the listeners about Tipton were not highly gifted ! Will talked a good deal himself , but what he said was thrown in with such rapidity , and with such an unimportant air of saying something by the way , that it seemed a gay little chime after the great bell . If Will was not always perfect , this was certainly one of his good days . He described touches of incident among the poor people in Rome , only to be seen by one who could move about freely ; he found himself in agreement with Mr . Casaubon as to the unsound opinions of Middleton concerning the relations of Judaism and Catholicism ; and passed easily to a half - enthusiastic half - playful picture of the enjoyment he got out of the very miscellaneousness of Rome , which made the mind flexible with constant comparison , and saved you from seeing the world’s ages as a set of box - like partitions without vital connection . Mr . Casaubon’s studies , Will observed , had always been of too broad a kind for that , and he had perhaps never felt any such sudden effect , but for himself he confessed that Rome had given him quite a new sense of history as a whole : the fragments stimulated his imagination and made him constructive . Then occasionally , but not too often , he appealed to Dorothea , and discussed what she said , as if her sentiment were an item to be considered in the final judgment even of the Madonna di Foligno or the Laocoon . A sense of contributing to form the world’s opinion makes conversation particularly cheerful ; and Mr . Casaubon too was not without his pride in his young wife , who spoke better than most women , as indeed he had perceived in choosing her .
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