 instead of
urging his own with iron resistance.
 

                                   Chapter LI

 Party is Nature too, and you shall see
 By force of Logic how they both agree:
 The Many in the One, the One in Many;
 All is not Some, nor Some the same as Any:
 Genus holds species, both are great or small;
 One genus highest, one not high at all;
 Each species has its differentia too,
 This is not That, and He was never You,
 Though this and that are ayes, and you and he
 Are like as one to one, or three to three.
 
No gossip about Mr. Casaubon's will had yet reached Ladislaw: the air seemed to
be filled with the dissolution of Parliament and the coming election, as the old
wakes and fairs were filled with the rival clatter of itinerant shows; and more
private noises were taken little notice of. The famous »dry election« was at
hand, in which the depths of public feeling might be measured by the low
flood-mark of drink. Will Ladislaw was one of the busiest at this time; and
though Dorothea's widowhood was continually in his thought, he was so far from
wishing to be spoken to on the subject, that when Lydgate sought him out to tell
him what had passed about the Lowick living, he answered rather waspishly -
    »Why should you bring me into the matter? I never see Mrs. Casaubon, and am
not likely to see her, since she is at Freshitt. I never go there. It is Tory
ground, where I and the Pioneer are no more welcome than a poacher and his gun.«
    The fact was that Will had been made the more susceptible by observing that
Mr. Brooke, instead of wishing him, as before, to come to the Grange oftener
than was quite agreeable to himself, seemed now to contrive that he should go
there as little as possible. This was a shuffling concession of Mr. Brooke's to
Sir James Chettam's indignant remonstrance; and Will, awake to the slightest
hint in this direction, concluded that he was to be kept away from the Grange on
Dorothea's account. Her friends, then, regarded him with some suspicion? Their
fears were quite superfluous: they were very much mistaken if they imagined that
he would put himself forward as a needy adventurer trying to win the favour of a
rich woman.
    Until now Will had never fully seen the chasm between himself and Dorothea -
until now that he was come to the brink of it, and saw her on the other side. He
began, not
