[Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookBeauchamp’s Career CHAPTER III 20/28
'Let me hear that he has married her, I will not utter another word.' Nevil echoed, 'Married!' in a different key. 'I am as much of an aristocrat as any of you, only I rank morality higher,' said Mrs.Beauchamp.
'When you were a child I offered to take you and make you my heir, and I would have educated you.
You shall see a great-nephew of mine that I did educate; he is eating his dinners for the bar in London, and comes to me every Sunday.
I shall marry him to a good girl, and I shall show your uncle what my kind of man-making is.' Nevil had no desire to meet the other great-nephew, especially when he was aware of the extraordinary circumstance that a Beauchamp great-niece, having no money, had bestowed her hand on a Manchester man defunct, whereof this young Blackburn Tuckham, the lawyer, was issue. He took his leave of Mrs.Elizabeth Beauchamp, respecting her for her constitutional health and brightness, and regretting for the sake of the country that she had not married to give England men and women resembling her.
On the whole he considered her wiser in her prescription for the malady besetting him than his uncle.
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