[Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookDiana of the Crossways CHAPTER XVIII 18/26
Lord Larrian owns to there being few heroes in an army. We must fawn in society.
What is the meaning of that dread of one example of tolerance? O my dear! let us give it the right name.
Society is the best thing we have, but it is a crazy vessel worked by a crew that formerly practised piracy, and now, in expiation, professes piety, fearful of a discovered Omnipotence, which is in the image of themselves and captain.
Their old habits are not quite abandoned, and their new one is used as a lash to whip the exposed of us for a propitiation of the capricious potentate whom they worship in the place of the true God.' Lady Dunstane sniffed.
'I smell the leading article.' Diana joined with her smile, 'No, the style is rather different.' 'Have you not got into a trick of composing in speaking, at times ?' Diana confessed, 'I think I have at times.
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