Both Uses of
sequel
in
Middlemarch
- In return I can at least offer you an affection hitherto unwasted, and the faithful consecration of a life which, however short in the sequel, has no backward pages whereon, if you choose to turn them, you will find records such as might justly cause you either bitterness or shame.†
Chpt 1 *
- It expressed regrets and proposed remedies, which, when Mr. Brooke read them, seemed felicitously worded—surprisingly the right thing, and determined a sequel which he had never before thought of.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(sequel) something that follows and continues something else -- especially a film or book
or more rarely: something that follows as a result of something else