[Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookBeauchamp’s Career CHAPTER XII 11/31
I left them at half-past eleven at night, and in the morning I found them walking in the garden.
They had not gone to bed at all.
Captain Beauchamp has remained in Bevisham ever since.
He soon came to the decision to be a candidate for the borough.' Rosamund checked her lips from uttering: To be a puppet of Dr. Shrapnel's! She remarked, 'He is very eloquent--Dr.Shrapnel ?' Miss Denham held some debate with herself upon the term. 'Perhaps it is not eloquence; he often...
no, he is not an orator.' Rosamund suggested that he was persuasive, possibly. Again the young lady deliberately weighed the word, as though the nicest measure of her uncle or adoptor's quality in this or that direction were in requisition and of importance--an instance of a want of delicacy of perception Rosamund was not sorry to detect.
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