Chapter 36
Lydgate finds Rosamond crying; the impulsive engagement.
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From Middlemarch by George Eliot
Their disastrous marriage becomes Eliot's portrait of mutual incomprehension, financial ruin, and emotional defeat.
Chapter 58
Lydgate confronts Rosamond about the furniture and selling the house; she quietly defeats him.
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Rosamond countermands his plans without telling him; the depth of their alienation.
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Lydgate later calls Rosamond his 'basil plant... flourishing wonderfully on a murdered man's brains.'
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