CHAPTER III.  “Say, goddess, what ensued, when Raphael,The affable archangel . . .                    EveThe story heard attentive, and was filledWith admiration, and deep muse, to hearOf things so high and strange.”—Paradise Lost, B. 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 bloomed. For they had had a long conversation in the