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Since I can do no good because a woman,
Reach constantly at something that is near it.
—The Maid’s Tragedy: BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin1 appeared to Italian painters; and her profile as well as her stature2 and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial3 fashion gave her the impressiveness of a fine quotation4 from the Bible,—or from one of our elder poets,—in a paragraph of to-day’s newspaper. She was usually spoken of as being remarkably6 clever, but with the addition that her sister Celia had more common-sense. Nevertheless, Celia wore scarcely more trimmings; and it was only to close observers that her dress differed from her sister’s, and had a shade of coquetry in its arrangements; for Miss Brooke’s plain dressing7 was due to mixed conditions, in most of which her sister shared. The pride of being ladies had something to do with it: the Brooke connections, though not exactly aristocratic, were unquestionably “good:” if you inquired backward for a generation or two, you would not find any yard-measuring or parcel-tying forefathers—anything lower than an admiral or a clergyman; and there was even an ancestor discernible as a Puritan gentleman who served under Cromwell, but afterwards conformed, and managed to come out of all political troubles as the proprietor8 of a respectable family estate9. Young women of such birth, living in a quiet country-house, and attending a village church hardly larger than a parlor10, naturally regarded frippery as the ambition of a huckster’s daughter. Then there was well-bred economy, which in those days made show in dress the first item to be deducted11 from, when any margin12 was required for expenses more distinctive13 of rank. Such reasons would have been enough to account for plain dress, quite apart from religious feeling; but in Miss Brooke’s case, religion alone would have determined14 it; and Celia mildly acquiesced15 in all her sister’s sentiments, only infusing them with that common-sense which is able to accept momentous16doctrines17 without any eccentric agitation18. Dorothea knew many passages of Pascal’s Pensees and of Jeremy Taylor by heart; and to her the destinies of mankind, seen by the light of Christianity, made the solicitudes19 of feminine fashion appear an occupation for Bedlam20. She could not reconcile the anxieties of a spiritual life involving eternal consequences, with a keen interest in gimp and artificial protrusions of drapery. Her mind was theoretic, and yearned21 by its nature after some lofty conception of the world which might frankly22 include the parish of Tipton and her own rule of conduct there; she was enamoured of intensity23 and greatness, and rash in embracing whatever seemed to her to have those aspects; likely to seek martyrdom, to make retractations, and then to incur24 martyrdom after all in a quarter where she had not sought it. Certainly such elements in the character of a marriageable girl tended to interfere25 with her lot, and hinder it from being decided26 according to custom, by good looks, vanity, and merely canine27 affection. With all this, she, the elder of the sisters, was not yet twenty, and they had both been educated, since they were about twelve years old and had lost their parents, on plans at once narrow and promiscuous28, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian29 trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned30 condition.
It was hardly a year since they had come to live at Tipton Grange with their uncle, a man nearly sixty, of acquiescent31 temper, miscellaneous opinions, and uncertain vote. He had travelled in his younger years, and was held in this part of the county to have contracted a too rambling33 habit of mind. Mr. Brooke’s conclusions were as difficult to predict as the weather: it was only safe to say that he would act with benevolent34 intentions, and that he would spend as little money as possible in carrying them out. For the most glutinously35 indefinite minds enclose some hard grains of habit; and a man has been seen lax about all his own interests except the retention36 of his snuff-box, concerning which he was watchful37, suspicious, and greedy of clutch.
In Mr. Brooke the hereditary38 strain of Puritan energy was clearly in abeyance39; but in his niece Dorothea it glowed alike through faults and virtues40, turning sometimes into impatience41 of her uncle’s talk or his way of “letting things be” on his estate, and making her long all the more for the time when she would be of age and have some command of money for generous schemes. She was regarded as an heiress; for not only had the sisters seven hundred a-year each from their parents, but if Dorothea married and had a son, that son would inherit Mr. Brooke’s estate, presumably worth about three thousand a-year—a rental42 which seemed wealth to provincial families, still discussing Mr. Peel’s late conduct on the Catholic question, innocent of future gold-fields, and of that gorgeous plutocracy43 which has so nobly exalted44 the necessities of genteel life.
And how should Dorothea not marry?—a girl so handsome and with such prospects45? Nothing could hinder it but her love of extremes, and her insistence46 on regulating life according to notions which might cause a wary47 man to hesitate before he made her an offer, or even might lead her at last to refuse all offers. A young lady of some birth and fortune, who knelt suddenly down on a brick floor by the side of a sick laborer48 and prayed fervidly49 as if she thought herself living in the time of the Apostles—who had strange whims50 of fasting like a Papist, and of sitting up at night to read old theological books! Such a wife might awaken51 you some fine morning with a new scheme for the application of her income which would interfere with political economy and the keeping of saddle-horses: a man would naturally think twice before he risked himself in such fellowship. Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane52 people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
The rural opinion about the new young ladies, even among the cottagers, was generally in favor of Celia, as being so amiable53 and innocent-looking, while Miss Brooke’s large eyes seemed, like her religion, too unusual and striking. Poor Dorothea! compared with her, the innocent-looking Celia was knowing and worldly-wise; so much subtler is a human mind than the outside tissues which make a sort of blazonry or clock-face for it.
Yet those who approached Dorothea, though prejudiced against her by this alarming hearsay54, found that she had a charm unaccountably reconcilable with it. Most men thought her bewitching when she was on horseback. She loved the fresh air and the various aspects of the country, and when her eyes and cheeks glowed with mingled55 pleasure she looked very little like a devotee. Riding was an indulgence which she allowed herself in spite of conscientious56qualms57; she felt that she enjoyed it in a pagan sensuous58 way, and always looked forward to renouncing59 it.
She was open, ardent60, and not in the least self-admiring; indeed, it was pretty to see how her imagination adorned61 her sister Celia with attractions altogether superior to her own, and if any gentleman appeared to come to the Grange from some other motive62 than that of seeing Mr. Brooke, she concluded that he must be in love with Celia: Sir James Chettam, for example, whom she constantly considered from Celia’s point of view, inwardly debating whether it would be good for Celia to accept him. That he should be regarded as a suitor to herself would have seemed to her a ridiculous irrelevance63. Dorothea, with all her eagerness to know the truths of life, retained very childlike ideas about marriage. She felt sure that she would have accepted the judicious64 Hooker, if she had been born in time to save him from that wretched mistake he made in matrimony; or John Milton when his blindness had come on; or any of the other great men whose odd habits it would have been glorious piety65 to endure; but an amiable handsome baronet, who said “Exactly” to her remarks even when she expressed uncertainty,—how could he affect her as a lover? The really delightful66 marriage must be that where your husband was a sort of father, and could teach you even Hebrew, if you wished it.
These peculiarities67 of Dorothea’s character caused Mr. Brooke to be all the more blamed in neighboring families for not securing some middle-aged68 lady as guide and companion to his nieces. But he himself dreaded69 so much the sort of superior woman likely to be available for such a position, that he allowed himself to be dissuaded70 by Dorothea’s objections, and was in this case brave enough to defy the world—that is to say, Mrs. Cadwallader the Rector’s wife, and the small group of gentry71 with whom he visited in the northeast corner of Loamshire. So Miss Brooke presided in her uncle’s household, and did not at all dislike her new authority, with the homage72 that belonged to it.
Sir James Chettam was going to dine at the Grange to-day with another gentleman whom the girls had never seen, and about whom Dorothea felt some venerating73 expectation. This was the Reverend Edward Casaubon, noted74 in the county as a man of profound learning, understood for many years to be engaged on a great work concerning religious history; also as a man of wealth enough to give lustre75 to his piety, and having views of his own which were to be more clearly ascertained76 on the publication of his book. His very name carried an impressiveness hardly to be measured without a precise chronology of scholarship.
Early in the day Dorothea had returned from the infant school which she had set going in the village, and was taking her usual place in the pretty sitting-room77 which divided the bedrooms of the sisters, bent78 on finishing a plan for some buildings (a kind of work which she delighted in), when Celia, who had been watching her with a hesitating desire to propose something, said—
“Dorothea, dear, if you don’t mind—if you are not very busy—suppose we looked at mamma’s jewels to-day, and divided them? It is exactly six months to-day since uncle gave them to you, and you have not looked at them yet.”
Celia’s face had the shadow of a pouting79 expression in it, the full presence of the pout80 being kept back by an habitual81awe82 of Dorothea and principle; two associated facts which might show a mysterious electricity if you touched them incautiously. To her relief, Dorothea’s eyes were full of laughter as she looked up.
“What a wonderful little almanac you are, Celia! Is it six calendar or six lunar months?”
“It is the last day of September now, and it was the first of April when uncle gave them to you. You know, he said that he had forgotten them till then. I believe you have never thought of them since you locked them up in the cabinet here.”
“Well, dear, we should never wear them, you know.” Dorothea spoke5 in a full cordial tone, half caressing83, half explanatory. She had her pencil in her hand, and was making tiny side-plans on a margin.
Celia colored, and looked very grave. “I think, dear, we are wanting in respect to mamma’s memory, to put them by and take no notice of them. And,” she added, after hesitating a little, with a rising sob84 of mortification85, “necklaces are quite usual now; and Madame Poincon, who was stricter in some things even than you are, used to wear ornaments86. And Christians87 generally—surely there are women in heaven now who wore jewels.” Celia was conscious of some mental strength when she really applied88 herself to argument.
“You would like to wear them?” exclaimed Dorothea, an air of astonished discovery animating89 her whole person with a dramatic action which she had caught from that very Madame Poincon who wore the ornaments. “Of course, then, let us have them out. Why did you not tell me before? But the keys, the keys!” She pressed her hands against the sides of her head and seemed to despair of her memory.
“They are here,” said Celia, with whom this explanation had been long meditated90 and prearranged.
“Pray open the large drawer of the cabinet and get out the jewel-box.”
The casket was soon open before them, and the various jewels spread out, making a bright parterre on the table. It was no great collection, but a few of the ornaments were really of remarkable91 beauty, the finest that was obvious at first being a necklace of purple amethysts92 set in exquisite93 gold work, and a pearl cross with five brilliants in it. Dorothea immediately took up the necklace and fastened it round her sister’s neck, where it fitted almost as closely as a bracelet94; but the circle suited the Henrietta-Maria style of Celia’s head and neck, and she could see that it did, in the pier-glass opposite.
“There, Celia! you can wear that with your Indian muslin. But this cross you must wear with your dark dresses.”
Celia was trying not to smile with pleasure. “O Dodo, you must keep the cross yourself.”
“No, no, dear, no,” said Dorothea, putting up her hand with careless deprecation.
“Yes, indeed you must; it would suit you—in your black dress, now,” said Celia, insistingly. “You might wear that.”
“Not for the world, not for the world. A cross is the last thing I would wear as a trinket.” Dorothea shuddered95 slightly.
“Then you will think it wicked in me to wear it,” said Celia, uneasily.
“No, dear, no,” said Dorothea, stroking her sister’s cheek. “Souls have complexions96 too: what will suit one will not suit another.”
“But you might like to keep it for mamma’s sake.”
“No, I have other things of mamma’s—her sandal-wood box which I am so fond of—plenty of things. In fact, they are all yours, dear. We need discuss them no longer. There—take away your property.”
Celia felt a little hurt. There was a strong assumption of superiority in this Puritanic toleration, hardly less trying to the blond flesh of an unenthusiastic sister than a Puritanic persecution98.
“But how can I wear ornaments if you, who are the elder sister, will never wear them?”
“Nay99, Celia, that is too much to ask, that I should wear trinkets to keep you in countenance100. If I were to put on such a necklace as that, I should feel as if I had been pirouetting. The world would go round with me, and I should not know how to walk.”
Celia had unclasped the necklace and drawn101 it off. “It would be a little tight for your neck; something to lie down and hang would suit you better,” she said, with some satisfaction. The complete unfitness of the necklace from all points of view for Dorothea, made Celia happier in taking it. She was opening some ring-boxes, which disclosed a fine emerald with diamonds, and just then the sun passing beyond a cloud sent a bright gleam over the table.
“How very beautiful these gems102 are!” said Dorothea, under a new current of feeling, as sudden as the gleam. “It is strange how deeply colors seem to penetrate103 one, like scent32. I suppose that is the reason why gems are used as spiritual emblems104 in the Revelation of St. John. They look like fragments of heaven. I think that emerald is more beautiful than any of them.”
“And there is a bracelet to match it,” said Celia. “We did not notice this at first.”
“They are lovely,” said Dorothea, slipping the ring and bracelet on her finely turned finger and wrist, and holding them towards the window on a level with her eyes. All the while her thought was trying to justify105 her delight in the colors by merging106 them in her mystic religious joy.
“You would like those, Dorothea,” said Celia, rather falteringly107, beginning to think with wonder that her sister showed some weakness, and also that emeralds would suit her own complexion97 even better than purple amethysts. “You must keep that ring and bracelet—if nothing else. But see, these agates108 are very pretty and quiet.”
“Yes! I will keep these—this ring and bracelet,” said Dorothea. Then, letting her hand fall on the table, she said in another tone—“Yet what miserable109 men find such things, and work at them, and sell them!” She paused again, and Celia thought that her sister was going to renounce110 the ornaments, as in consistency111 she ought to do.
“Yes, dear, I will keep these,” said Dorothea, decidedly. “But take all the rest away, and the casket.”
She took up her pencil without removing the jewels, and still looking at them. She thought of often having them by her, to feed her eye at these little fountains of pure color.
“Shall you wear them in company?” said Celia, who was watching her with real curiosity as to what she would do.
Dorothea glanced quickly at her sister. Across all her imaginative adornment112 of those whom she loved, there darted113 now and then a keen discernment, which was not without a scorching114 quality. If Miss Brooke ever attained115 perfect meekness116, it would not be for lack of inward fire.
“Perhaps,” she said, rather haughtily117. “I cannot tell to what level I may sink.”
Celia blushed, and was unhappy: she saw that she had offended her sister, and dared not say even anything pretty about the gift of the ornaments which she put back into the box and carried away. Dorothea too was unhappy, as she went on with her plan-drawing, questioning the purity of her own feeling and speech in the scene which had ended with that little explosion.
Celia’s consciousness told her that she had not been at all in the wrong: it was quite natural and justifiable118 that she should have asked that question, and she repeated to herself that Dorothea was inconsistent: either she should have taken her full share of the jewels, or, after what she had said, she should have renounced119 them altogether.
“I am sure—at least, I trust,” thought Celia, “that the wearing of a necklace will not interfere with my prayers. And I do not see that I should be bound by Dorothea’s opinions now we are going into society, though of course she herself ought to be bound by them. But Dorothea is not always consistent.”
Thus Celia, mutely bending over her tapestry120, until she heard her sister calling her.
“Here, Kitty, come and look at my plan; I shall think I am a great architect, if I have not got incompatible121 stairs and fireplaces.”
As Celia bent over the paper, Dorothea put her cheek against her sister’s arm caressingly122. Celia understood the action. Dorothea saw that she had been in the wrong, and Celia pardoned her. Since they could remember, there had been a mixture of criticism and awe in the attitude of Celia’s mind towards her elder sister. The younger had always worn a yoke123; but is there any yoked124 creature without its private opinions?
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爱抚的，表现爱情的，亲切的
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n.空间轨道的轰炸机；呜咽，哭泣；vi.啜泣，呜咽；（风等）发出呜咽声；vt.哭诉，啜泣
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85mortification ['mɔ:tifi'keiʃən] 第11级
n.耻辱，屈辱
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n.装饰( ornament的名词复数 )；点缀；装饰品；首饰v.装饰，点缀，美化( ornament的第三人称单数 )
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87Christians [ˈkristʃənz] 第7级
n.基督教徒( Christian的名词复数 )
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adj.应用的；v.应用，适用
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v.使有生气( animate的现在分词 )；驱动；使栩栩如生地动作；赋予…以生命
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90meditated [ˈmedɪˌteɪtid] 第8级
深思，沉思，冥想( meditate的过去式和过去分词 )； 内心策划，考虑
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91remarkable [rɪˈmɑ:kəbl] 第7级
adj.显著的，异常的，非凡的，值得注意的
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n.紫蓝色宝石( amethyst的名词复数 )；紫晶；紫水晶；紫色
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adj.精美的；敏锐的；剧烈的，感觉强烈的
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n.手镯，臂镯
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v.战栗( shudder的过去式和过去分词 )；发抖；（机器、车辆等）突然震动；颤动
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96complexions [kəmˈplekʃənz] 第8级
肤色( complexion的名词复数 )； 面色； 局面； 性质
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97complexion [kəmˈplekʃn] 第8级
n.肤色；情况，局面；气质，性格
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98persecution [ˌpə:si'kju:ʃən] 第7级
n. 迫害,烦扰
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adv.不；n.反对票，投反对票者
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100countenance [ˈkaʊntənəns] 第9级
n.脸色，面容；面部表情；vt.支持，赞同
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v.（draw的过去式）拖，拉，拔出；adj.憔悴的，紧张的
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growth； economy； management； and customer satisfaction 增长
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vt.&vi.透(渗)入；刺入，刺穿；洞察，了解
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n.象征，标记( emblem的名词复数 )
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vt.证明…正当(或有理)，为…辩护
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合并（分类）
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107falteringly ['fɔ:ltərɪŋlɪ] 第8级
口吃地，支吾地
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n.玛瑙( agate的名词复数 )；玛瑙制（或装有玛瑙的）工具； （小孩玩的）玛瑙纹玩具弹子；5。5磅铅字
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adj.悲惨的，痛苦的；可怜的，糟糕的
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vt.放弃；拒绝承认，宣布与…断绝关系；vi.放弃权利；垫牌
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111consistency [kənˈsɪstənsi] 第9级
n.一贯性，前后一致，稳定性；(液体的)浓度
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n.装饰；装饰品
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v.投掷，投射( dart的过去式和过去分词 )；向前冲，飞奔
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adj. 灼热的
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（通常经过努力）实现( attain的过去式和过去分词 )； 达到； 获得； 达到（某年龄、水平、状况）
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n.温顺，柔和
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adv. 傲慢地, 高傲地
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118justifiable [ˈdʒʌstɪfaɪəbl] 第11级
adj.有理由的，无可非议的
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v.声明放弃( renounce的过去式和过去分词 )；宣布放弃；宣布与…决裂；宣布摒弃
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n.挂毯，丰富多采的画面
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121incompatible [ˌɪnkəmˈpætəbl] 第7级
adj.不相容的，不协调的，不相配的
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122caressingly [kə'resɪŋlɪ] 第7级
爱抚地，亲切地
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n.轭；支配；vt.给...上轭，连接，使成配偶；vi.结合；匹配
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结合（yoke的过去式形式）
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