[Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookDiana of the Crossways CHAPTER XVI 19/33
Dacier answered that he thought he had seen her somewhere once, and Diana shut her lips on a rising under-smile. 'She is the coeur d'or of our time; the one soul I would sacrifice these flowers to.' 'A bit of a blue-stocking, I think I have heard said.' 'She might have been admitted to the Hotel Rambouillet, without being anything of a Precieuse.
She is the woman of the largest heart now beating.' 'Mr.Redworth talked of her.' 'As she deserved, I am sure.' 'Very warmly.' 'He would!' 'He told me you were the Damon and Pythias of women.' 'Her one fault is an extreme humility that makes her always play second to me; and as I am apt to gabble, I take the lead; and I am froth in comparison.
I can reverence my superiors even when tried by intimacy with them.
She is the next heavenly thing to heaven that I know.
Court her, if ever you come across her.
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