[Evan Harrington by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookEvan Harrington CHAPTER XLII 7/11
Show that he did it to shield his intriguing sister.
Tell her that you write this only to make her just to him.
End with a prayer that Rose may be happy.' Ere Juliana had finished one sentence, she resigned the pencil.
Was it not much, even at the gates of death, to be the instrument to send Rose into his arms? The picture swayed before her, helping her weakness. She found herself dreaming that he had kissed her once.
Dorothy, she remembered, had danced up to her one day, to relate what the maids of the house said of the gentleman--( at whom, it is known, they look with the licence of cats toward kings); and Dorothy's fresh careless mouth had told how one observant maid, amorously minded, proclaimed of Evan, to a companion of her sex, that, 'he was the only gentleman who gave you an idea of how he would look when he was kissing you.' Juliana cherished that vision likewise.
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