Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life by Heather Cass White

Author:Heather Cass White [White, Heather Cass]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Literary Figures, Literary Criticism, Books & Reading
ISBN: 9780374719852
Google: 71T2DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2021-07-06T00:21:39.518525+00:00

In this chapter Dorothea, with her family, meets Mr. Casaubon, the elderly scholar who will shortly become her husband. No one else at that meeting imagines he might fill that role. While Dorothea is transfixed by the man of great learning and greater soul that her own needs have placed before her eyes, her sister Celia, younger, quieter, and considerably more grounded, eyes him with Sancho-like clarity:

When the two girls were in the drawing-room alone, Celia said—

“How very ugly Mr Casaubon is!”

“Celia! He is one of the most distinguished-looking men I ever saw. He is remarkably like the portrait of Locke. He has the same deep eye-sockets.”

“Had Locke those two white moles with hairs on them?”

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