[The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Adventures of Harry Richmond CHAPTER XIV 11/18
The place lies out in the Hanover direction, far from here.
He told us that you were with your grandfather, and I must see Riversley Grange, and the truth is you must take me there.
I suspect you have your peace to make; perhaps I shall help you, and be a true Peribanou.
We go over Amsterdam, the Hague, Brussels, and you shall see the battlefield, Paris, straight to London. Yes, you are fickle; you have not once called me Peribanou.' Her voluble rattling succeeded in fencing off my questions before I could exactly shape them, as I staggered from blind to blind idea, now thinking of the sombre red Bench, and now of the German prince's Court. 'Won't you tell me any more to-night ?' I said, when she paused. 'Indeed, I have not any more to tell,' she assured me. It was clear to me that she had joined the mysterious league against my father.
I began to have a choking in the throat.
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