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How delightful to make captives from the throne of marriage with a husband as crown - prince by your side — himself in fact a subject — while the captives look up forever hopeless , losing their rest probably , and if their appetite too , so much the better ! But Rosamond’s romance turned at present chiefly on her crown - prince , and it was enough to enjoy his assured subjection . When he said , “ Poor devil ! ” she asked , with playful curiosity — “ Why so ? ” “ Why , what can a man do when he takes to adoring one of you mermaids ? He only neglects his work and runs up bills . ” “ I am sure you do not neglect your work . You are always at the Hospital , or seeing poor patients , or thinking about some doctor’s quarrel ; and then at home you always want to pore over your microscope and phials . Confess you like those things better than me . ” “ Haven’t you ambition enough to wish that your husband should be something better than a Middlemarch doctor ? ” said Lydgate , letting his hands fall on to his wife’s shoulders , and looking at her with affectionate gravity . “ I shall make you learn my favorite bit from an old poet — ‘ Why should our pride make such a stir to be And be forgot ? What good is like to this , To do worthy the writing , and to write Worthy the reading and the worlds delight ? ’ What I want , Rosy , is to do worthy the writing , — and to write out myself what I have done . A man must work , to do that , my pet . ” “ Of course , I wish you to make discoveries : no one could more wish you to attain a high position in some better place than Middlemarch . You cannot say that I have ever tried to hinder you from working . But we cannot live like hermits . You are not discontented with me , Tertius ? ” “ No , dear , no . I am too entirely contented . ” “ But what did Mrs . Casaubon want to say to you ? ” “ Merely to ask about her husband’s health . But I think she is going to be splendid to our New Hospital : I think she will give us two hundred a - year . ” CHAPTER XLIV . I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid - sea , by guidance of the stars . When Dorothea , walking round the laurel - planted plots of the New Hospital with Lydgate , had learned from him that there were no signs of change in Mr . Casaubon’s bodily condition beyond the mental sign of anxiety to know the truth about his illness , she was silent for a few moments , wondering whether she had said or done anything to rouse this new anxiety . Lydgate , not willing to let slip an opportunity of furthering a favorite purpose , ventured to say — “ I don’t know whether your or Mr . Casaubon’s attention has been drawn to the needs of our New Hospital . Circumstances have made it seem rather egotistic in me to urge the subject ; but that is not my fault : it is because there is a fight being made against it by the other medical men . I think you are generally interested in such things , for I remember that when I first had the pleasure of seeing you at Tipton Grange before your marriage , you were asking me some questions about the way in which the health of the poor was affected by their miserable housing . ”
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