Middlemarch, Chapter 75: samenvatting

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1. With the creditors paid, Rosamond finds fresh hope in Will Ladislaw’s letter suggesting a possible visit.
2. Rosamond arranges an evening party without consulting Lydgate, but every invitation receives a refusal.
3. Her parents explain the suspicions surrounding Bulstrode and Lydgate, and her father suggests that Lydgate must leave town.
4. Rosamond returns home ashamed and resentful, while Lydgate waits painfully for her to express trust in him.
5. Lydgate prepares to explain himself and seek her support for economy, but she interrupts with another demand for London.
6. He leaves the room, and their continued separation of feeling makes Rosamond determined to confide in Will.

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The image joins their shared danger to their emotional separation. Both suffer, but neither turns toward the other for support.

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