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“ Fred has lost all his other expectations ; he must keep this , ” Mary said to herself , with a smile curling her lips . It was impossible to help fleeting visions of another kind — new dignities and an acknowledged value of which she had often felt the absence . But these things with Fred outside them , Fred forsaken and looking sad for the want of her , could never tempt her deliberate thought . CHAPTER LVIII . “ For there can live no hatred in thine eye , Therefore in that I cannot know thy change : In many’s looks the false heart’s history Is writ in moods and frowns and wrinkles strange : But Heaven in thy creation did decree That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell : Whate’er thy thoughts or thy heart’s workings be Thy looks should nothing thence but sweetness tell . ” — SHAKESPEARE : Sonnets . At the time when Mr . Vincy uttered that presentiment about Rosamond , she herself had never had the idea that she should be driven to make the sort of appeal which he foresaw . She had not yet had any anxiety about ways and means , although her domestic life had been expensive as well as eventful . Her baby had been born prematurely , and all the embroidered robes and caps had to be laid by in darkness . This misfortune was attributed entirely to her having persisted in going out on horseback one day when her husband had desired her not to do so ; but it must not be supposed that she had shown temper on the occasion , or rudely told him that she would do as she liked . What led her particularly to desire horse - exercise was a visit from Captain Lydgate , the baronet’s third son , who , I am sorry to say , was detested by our Tertius of that name as a vapid fop “ parting his hair from brow to nape in a despicable fashion ” ( not followed by Tertius himself ) , and showing an ignorant security that he knew the proper thing to say on every topic . Lydgate inwardly cursed his own folly that he had drawn down this visit by consenting to go to his uncle’s on the wedding - tour , and he made himself rather disagreeable to Rosamond by saying so in private . For to Rosamond this visit was a source of unprecedented but gracefully concealed exultation . She was so intensely conscious of having a cousin who was a baronet’s son staying in the house , that she imagined the knowledge of what was implied by his presence to be diffused through all other minds ; and when she introduced Captain Lydgate to her guests , she had a placid sense that his rank penetrated them as if it had been an odor . The satisfaction was enough for the time to melt away some disappointment in the conditions of marriage with a medical man even of good birth : it seemed now that her marriage was visibly as well as ideally floating her above the Middlemarch level , and the future looked bright with letters and visits to and from Quallingham , and vague advancement in consequence for Tertius . Especially as , probably at the Captain’s suggestion , his married sister , Mrs . Mengan , had come with her maid , and stayed two nights on her way from town . Hence it was clearly worth while for Rosamond to take pains with her music and the careful selection of her lace .
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