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Thus it happened , that after Sir James had ridden rather fast for half an hour in a direction away from Tipton Grange , he slackened his pace , and at last turned into a road which would lead him back by a shorter cut . Various feelings wrought in him the determination after all to go to the Grange to - day as if nothing new had happened . He could not help rejoicing that he had never made the offer and been rejected ; mere friendly politeness required that he should call to see Dorothea about the cottages , and now happily Mrs . Cadwallader had prepared him to offer his congratulations , if necessary , without showing too much awkwardness . He really did not like it : giving up Dorothea was very painful to him ; but there was something in the resolve to make this visit forthwith and conquer all show of feeling , which was a sort of file - biting and counter - irritant . And without his distinctly recognizing the impulse , there certainly was present in him the sense that Celia would be there , and that he should pay her more attention than he had done before . We mortals , men and women , devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner - time ; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips , and in answer to inquiries say , “ Oh , nothing ! ” Pride helps us ; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts — not to hurt others . CHAPTER VII . “ Piacer e popone Vuol la sua stagione . ” — Italian Proverb . Mr . Casaubon , as might be expected , spent a great deal of his time at the Grange in these weeks , and the hindrance which courtship occasioned to the progress of his great work — the Key to all Mythologies — naturally made him look forward the more eagerly to the happy termination of courtship . But he had deliberately incurred the hindrance , having made up his mind that it was now time for him to adorn his life with the graces of female companionship , to irradiate the gloom which fatigue was apt to hang over the intervals of studious labor with the play of female fancy , and to secure in this , his culminating age , the solace of female tendance for his declining years . Hence he determined to abandon himself to the stream of feeling , and perhaps was surprised to find what an exceedingly shallow rill it was . As in droughty regions baptism by immersion could only be performed symbolically , Mr . Casaubon found that sprinkling was the utmost approach to a plunge which his stream would afford him ; and he concluded that the poets had much exaggerated the force of masculine passion . Nevertheless , he observed with pleasure that Miss Brooke showed an ardent submissive affection which promised to fulfil his most agreeable previsions of marriage .
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