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“ No , he couldn’t , ” said Lydgate , going on too earnestly to take much notice of her answer . “ He could only get a complete skeleton by snatching the whitened bones of a criminal from the gallows , and burying them , and fetching them away by bits secretly , in the dead of night . ” “ I hope he is not one of your great heroes , ” said Rosamond , half playfully , half anxiously , “ else I shall have you getting up in the night to go to St . Peter’s churchyard . You know how angry you told me the people were about Mrs . Goby . You have enemies enough already . ” “ So had Vesalius , Rosy . No wonder the medical fogies in Middlemarch are jealous , when some of the greatest doctors living were fierce upon Vesalius because they had believed in Galen , and he showed that Galen was wrong . They called him a liar and a poisonous monster . But the facts of the human frame were on his side ; and so he got the better of them . ” “ And what happened to him afterwards ? ” said Rosamond , with some interest . “ Oh , he had a good deal of fighting to the last . And they did exasperate him enough at one time to make him burn a good deal of his work . Then he got shipwrecked just as he was coming from Jerusalem to take a great chair at Padua . He died rather miserably . ” There was a moment’s pause before Rosamond said , “ Do you know , Tertius , I often wish you had not been a medical man . ” “ Nay , Rosy , don’t say that , ” said Lydgate , drawing her closer to him . “ That is like saying you wish you had married another man . ” “ Not at all ; you are clever enough for anything : you might easily have been something else . And your cousins at Quallingham all think that you have sunk below them in your choice of a profession . ” “ The cousins at Quallingham may go to the devil ! ” said Lydgate , with scorn . “ It was like their impudence if they said anything of the sort to you . ” “ Still , ” said Rosamond , “ I do not think it is a nice profession , dear . ” We know that she had much quiet perseverance in her opinion . “ It is the grandest profession in the world , Rosamond , ” said Lydgate , gravely . “ And to say that you love me without loving the medical man in me , is the same sort of thing as to say that you like eating a peach but don’t like its flavor . Don’t say that again , dear , it pains me . ” “ Very well , Doctor Grave - face , ” said Rosy , dimpling , “ I will declare in future that I dote on skeletons , and body - snatchers , and bits of things in phials , and quarrels with everybody , that end in your dying miserably . ” “ No , no , not so bad as that , ” said Lydgate , giving up remonstrance and petting her resignedly . CHAPTER XLVI . Pues no podemos haber aquello que queremos , queramos aquello que podremos . Since we cannot get what we like , let us like what we can get . — Spanish Proverb . While Lydgate , safely married and with the Hospital under his command , felt himself struggling for Medical Reform against Middlemarch , Middlemarch was becoming more and more conscious of the national struggle for another kind of Reform .
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