[The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Adventures of Harry Richmond CHAPTER IX 21/31
Your dinner-hour the same as usual, of course? Therefore at four P.M.
the hour of execution.
And come, Greg, you and I will visit the cellar.
A dozen and half of light and half-a-dozen of the old family--that will be about the number of bottles to give me my quietus, and you yours--all of us! And you, young gentlemen, take your guns or your rods, and back and be dressed by the four bell, or you 'll not find the same man in Billy Bulsted.' Temple was enraptured with him.
He declared he had been thinking seriously for a long time of entering the Navy, and his admiration of the captain must have given him an intuition of his character, for he persuaded me to send to Riversley for our evening-dress clothes, appearing in which at the dinner-table, we received the captain's compliments, as being gentlemen who knew how to attire ourselves to suit an occasion.
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