Christopher Antimie’s Reviews > Middlemarch > Status Update

Everyone be getting married

"And there’s none more ready to nurse you than your own
sister and your own nieces, if you’d only say the word. There’s
Rebecca, and Joanna, and Elizabeth, you know."

“Ay, ay, I remember—you’ll see I’ve remembered ’em all—all dark and
ugly. They’d need have some money, eh? There never was any beauty in
the women of our family"

On a less serious note, Mary Garth is what the kids call "bae"

“ 'He has got no good red blood in his body,' said Sir James.

'No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses,' said Mrs. Cadwallader. " (p 65)

" 'Oh, Mrs. Cadwallader, I don’t think it can be nice to marry a man with a great soul.'
'Well, my dear, take warning. You know the look of one now; when the next comes and wants to marry you, don’t you accept him.' ” (p 51)

"The objectionable puppy, whose nose and eyes were equally black and expressive, was thus got rid of, since Miss Brooke decided that it had better not have been born" (p 28). Some interesting symbolism at play with Sir James and his remonstrated pup as well as the recurring "Exactly". Glad the text is taking a turn for the comical, rather than simple the didactic.