Chapter 11 – movement and mixture

There is a new surgeon in town—Mr. Lydgate. He has feelings for Rosamond Vincy. He thinks a woman “ought to produce the effect of exquisite music.”

Mr. Casaubon “took a wife to adorn the remaining quadrant of his course, and be a little moon that would cause hardly a calculable perturbation.” Man as planet, woman as moon. Someone to just be around.

Lydgate thought Miss Brooke “did not look at things from the proper feminine angle.”

The narrator out that the “old provincial society” is giving way to a “new consciousness of inter-dependence….Municipal town and rural parish gradually made fresh threads of connection—gradually, as the old stocking gave way to the savings-bank.” There was “movement and mixture.”

New word: tetchy. “You are the sweetest temper in the world, but are so tetchy with your brothers.” Tetchy = irritable, cranky, annoyed.

“A woman must learn to put up with little things. You will be married someday.” Woman have to “put up.”

“We had whist.” Whist = a card game.

I laughed at this sentence: “Fred’s studies are not very deep,” said Rosamond, rising with her mamma, “he is only reading a novel.” A great novelist making fun of her profession (through her characters).