Chapter 14
Mary at Featherstone's bedside; her refusal to be flattered.
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From Middlemarch by George Eliot
The novel's secondary romance plot pairs the feckless Fred with the plain, sensible, morally exacting Mary Garth.
Chapter 33
Featherstone's deathbed: Mary refuses to burn the will, a decisive moral act.
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Mary tells Fred she could never marry an idle man; Fred's debt has ruined the Garths.
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Caleb Garth takes Fred on; the dignity of labor.
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