Chapter 4: III

III Say, goddess, what ensued, when Raphael, The affable archangel … … Eve The story heard attentive, and was filled With admiration, and deep muse, to hear Of things so high and strange. Paradise Lost, Book vii If it had really occurred to Mr. Casaubon to think of Miss Brooke as a suitable wife for him, the reasons that might induce her to accept him were already planted in her mind, and by the evening of the next day the reasons had budded and bloo…