PALO ALTO, CA L. COLLECTION OF BRITISH AUTHORS. VOL. 898. FELIX HOLT BY GEORGE ELIOT. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. FELIX HOLT THE RADICAL BY GEORGE ELIOT AUTHOR OF "ADAM BEDE," "ROMOLA," ETC. COPYRIGHT EDITION. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. STANFORD LIBRAR LEIPZIG BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ 1867. The Right of Translation is reserved. FELIX HOLT, Your fellow-man? - Divide the epithet: WHEN Christian quitted the Free School with the discovery that the young lady whose appearance had first startled him with an indefinable impression in the market-place was the daughter of the old Dissenting preacher who had shown so much agitated curiosity about his name, he felt very much like an uninitiated chess-player who sees that the pieces are in a peculiar position on the board, and might open the way for him to give checkmate, if he only knew how. Ever since. his interview with Jermyn, his mind had been occupied with the charade it offered to his ingenuity. What was the real meaning of the lawyer's interest in him, and in his relations with Maurice Christian Bycliffe? Here was a secret; and secrets were often a source of profit, of that agreeable kind which involved little labour. Jermyn had hinted at profit which might possibly come through him; but Christian said inwardly, with well-satisfied self-esteem, that he was not so pitiable a nincompoop as to trust Jermyn. On the |