GAGE MCWEENYGertainly nothing at present could seem much less important to Lydgate than the turn of Miss Brooke's mind, or to Miss Brooke than the qualities of a woman who Had attracted this young surgeon. But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effect from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which we look at our unintroduced neighbour. Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.