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CHAPTER LIX . “ They said of old the Soul had human shape , But smaller , subtler than the fleshly self , So wandered forth for airing when it pleased . And see ! beside her cherub - face there floats A pale - lipped form aerial whispering Its promptings in that little shell her ear . ” News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off ( having no idea how powdery they are ) when they are buzzing in search of their particular nectar . This fine comparison has reference to Fred Vincy , who on that evening at Lowick Parsonage heard a lively discussion among the ladies on the news which their old servant had got from Tantripp concerning Mr . Casaubon’s strange mention of Mr . Ladislaw in a codicil to his will made not long before his death . Miss Winifred was astounded to find that her brother had known the fact before , and observed that Camden was the most wonderful man for knowing things and not telling them ; whereupon Mary Garth said that the codicil had perhaps got mixed up with the habits of spiders , which Miss Winifred never would listen to . Mrs . Farebrother considered that the news had something to do with their having only once seen Mr . Ladislaw at Lowick , and Miss Noble made many small compassionate mewings . Fred knew little and cared less about Ladislaw and the Casaubons , and his mind never recurred to that discussion till one day calling on Rosamond at his mother’s request to deliver a message as he passed , he happened to see Ladislaw going away . Fred and Rosamond had little to say to each other now that marriage had removed her from collision with the unpleasantness of brothers , and especially now that he had taken what she held the stupid and even reprehensible step of giving up the Church to take to such a business as Mr . Garth’s . Hence Fred talked by preference of what he considered indifferent news , and “ a propos of that young Ladislaw ” mentioned what he had heard at Lowick Parsonage . Now Lydgate , like Mr . Farebrother , knew a great deal more than he told , and when he had once been set thinking about the relation between Will and Dorothea his conjectures had gone beyond the fact . He imagined that there was a passionate attachment on both sides , and this struck him as much too serious to gossip about . He remembered Will’s irritability when he had mentioned Mrs . Casaubon , and was the more circumspect . On the whole his surmises , in addition to what he knew of the fact , increased his friendliness and tolerance towards Ladislaw , and made him understand the vacillation which kept him at Middlemarch after he had said that he should go away . It was significant of the separateness between Lydgate’s mind and Rosamond’s that he had no impulse to speak to her on the subject ; indeed , he did not quite trust her reticence towards Will . And he was right there ; though he had no vision of the way in which her mind would act in urging her to speak . When she repeated Fred’s news to Lydgate , he said , “ Take care you don’t drop the faintest hint to Ladislaw , Rosy . He is likely to fly out as if you insulted him . Of course it is a painful affair . ”
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