[Rhoda Fleming by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookRhoda Fleming CHAPTER X 8/19
The moral is, Make your money, and you may buy all the rest." Discoursing thus by the way, and resisting the farmer's occasional efforts to relieve him of the bag, with the observation that appearances were deceiving, and that he intended, please his Maker, to live and turn over a little more interest yet, Anthony brought them to Mrs.Wicklow's house.
Mrs.Wicklow promised to put them into the track of the omnibuses running toward Dahlia's abode in the Southwest, and Mary Ann Wicklow, who had a burning desire in her bosom to behold even the outside shell of her friend's new grandeur, undertook very disinterestedly to accompany them.
Anthony's strict injunction held them due at a lamp-post outside Boyne's Bank, at half-past three o'clock in the afternoon. "My love to Dahly," he said.
"She was always a head and shoulders over my size.
Tell her, when she rolls by in her carriage, not to mind me.
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