Chapter 42
Casaubon asks Dorothea to promise to carry out his wishes after his death; she agonizes overnight.
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From Middlemarch by George Eliot
Casaubon dies before exacting a promise from Dorothea, but his codicil disinheriting her if she marries Ladislaw extends his 'dead hand' over her life.
Chapter 48
She resolves to promise; finds him dead in the garden.
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Discovery of the codicil; Dorothea's revulsion at her late husband's suspicion.
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