Middlemarch vocabulary

Behold, then, the candles lighted, the fire stimulated to the burning point in the grate, and our three worthies seated round a table, well spread with all the accessories to good fellowship enumerated before.

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A number of peasants have come to lay before the district Ispravnik, or officer of rural police, a complaint against some of their petty oppressors. But, on arriving near the Ispravnik's house, they see that worthy standing in his verandah, benignantly smiling on the two men they have come to complain of, who are ofifering him a variety of presents, all of which the peasants recognise as having formerly belonged to themselves. Horrified at the sight, they are evidently about to retire without laying their case before such a judge.

Ivan Krylov.The Peasants and the River (footnote) (Ralston translation, 1869)

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   Then you have done a braver thing

    Than all the Worthies did,

   And a braver thence will spring,

    Which is, to keep that hid."