[The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Ordeal of Richard Feverel CHAPTER XVII 3/11
The satiated, and the insatiate, appetite alike appeal to extremes.
You are astonished at this revelation of your son's condition.
I expected it; though assuredly, believe me, not this sudden and indisputable proof of it.
But I knew that the seed was in him, and therefore I have not latterly invited him to Raynham. School, and the corruption there, will bear its fruits sooner or later. I could advise you, Thompson, what to do with him: it would be my plan." Mr.Thompson murmured, like a true courtier, that he should esteem it an honour to be favoured with Sir Austin Feverel's advice: secretly resolute, like a true Briton, to follow his own. "Let him, then," continued the baronet, "see vice in its nakedness. While he has yet some innocence, nauseate him! Vice, taken little by little, usurps gradually the whole creature.
My counsel to you, Thompson, would be, to drag him through the sinks of town." Mr.Thompson began to blink again. "Oh, I shall punish him, Sir Austin! Do not fear me, air.
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