As to the line he took on the Catholic Question, that was unexpected; but he has always been civil to me, and I don't see why I should spoil his sport.
" I don't want you to do anything but be civil to him and help to the pudding. You'll give me your advice if I get in a muddle, won't you? " asked Jo, rather hurt.
" Lydgate has lots of ideas, quite new, about ventilation and diet, that sort of thing, " resumed Mr. Brooke, after he had handed out Lady Chettam, and had returned to be civil to a group of Middlemarchers.