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Will’s certainty as the carriage grew smaller in the distance , had much more bitterness in it . Very slight matters were enough to gall him in his sensitive mood , and the sight of Dorothea driving past him while he felt himself plodding along as a poor devil seeking a position in a world which in his present temper offered him little that he coveted , made his conduct seem a mere matter of necessity , and took away the sustainment of resolve . After all , he had no assurance that she loved him : could any man pretend that he was simply glad in such a case to have the suffering all on his own side ? That evening Will spent with the Lydgates ; the next evening he was gone . BOOK VII . TWO TEMPTATIONS . CHAPTER LXIII . These little things are great to little man . — GOLDSMITH . “ Have you seen much of your scientific phoenix , Lydgate , lately ? ” said Mr . Toller at one of his Christmas dinner - parties , speaking to Mr . Farebrother on his right hand . “ Not much , I am sorry to say , ” answered the Vicar , accustomed to parry Mr . Toller’s banter about his belief in the new medical light . “ I am out of the way and he is too busy . ” “ Is he ? I am glad to hear it , ” said Dr . Minchin , with mingled suavity and surprise . “ He gives a great deal of time to the New Hospital , ” said Mr . Farebrother , who had his reasons for continuing the subject : “ I hear of that from my neighbor , Mrs . Casaubon , who goes there often . She says Lydgate is indefatigable , and is making a fine thing of Bulstrode’s institution . He is preparing a new ward in case of the cholera coming to us . ” “ And preparing theories of treatment to try on the patients , I suppose , ” said Mr . Toller . “ Come , Toller , be candid , ” said Mr . Farebrother . “ You are too clever not to see the good of a bold fresh mind in medicine , as well as in everything else ; and as to cholera , I fancy , none of you are very sure what you ought to do . If a man goes a little too far along a new road , it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else . ” “ I am sure you and Wrench ought to be obliged to him , ” said Dr . Minchin , looking towards Toller , “ for he has sent you the cream of Peacock’s patients . ” “ Lydgate has been living at a great rate for a young beginner , ” said Mr . Harry Toller , the brewer . “ I suppose his relations in the North back him up . ” “ I hope so , ” said Mr . Chichely , “ else he ought not to have married that nice girl we were all so fond of . Hang it , one has a grudge against a man who carries off the prettiest girl in the town . ” “ Ay , by God ! and the best too , ” said Mr . Standish . “ My friend Vincy didn’t half like the marriage , I know that , ” said Mr . Chichely . “ He wouldn’t do much . How the relations on the other side may have come down I can’t say . ” There was an emphatic kind of reticence in Mr . Chichely’s manner of speaking .
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