[Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookDiana of the Crossways CHAPTER XV 19/29
The elder brother, Lord Creedmore, is a common Nimrod, always absent in Hungary, Russia, America, hunting somewhere. Mr.Dacier will be in the Cabinet with the next Ministry.' No more of him.
A new work by ANTONIA was progressing. The Summer in South Tyrol passed like a royal procession before young eyes for Diana, and at the close of it, descending the Stelvio, idling through the Valtelline, Como Lake was reached, Diana full of her work, living the double life of the author.
At Bellagio one afternoon Mr. Percy Dacier appeared.
She remembered subsequently a disappointment she felt in not beholding Mr.Redworth either with him or displacing him.
If engaged to a lady, he was not an ardent suitor; nor was he a pointedly complimentary acquaintance.
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