Middlemarch - Page 546/561

But of Mr. Brooke I make a further remark perhaps less warranted by

precedent--namely, that if he had foreknown his speech, it might not

have made any great difference. To think with pleasure of his niece's

husband having a large ecclesiastical income was one thing--to make a

Liberal speech was another thing; and it is a narrow mind which cannot

look at a subject from various points of view.