Read "Middlemarch" by George Eliot online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
Mrs. Garth, hearing Caleb enter the passage about tea-time, opened the parlor-door and said, "There you are, Caleb. Have you had your dinner?" (Mr. Garth's meals were much subordinated to "business.")
-"Oh yes, a good dinner--cold mutton and I don't know what. Where is Mary?"