[Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookDiana of the Crossways CHAPTER XVIII 21/26
'Do you bring them together ?' Diana nodded, and then shook doleful negatives to signify no hope. 'None whatever--if we mean the same person,' said Lady Dunstane, bethinking her, in the spirit of wrath she felt at such a scheme being planned by Diana to snare the right good man, that instead of her own true lover Redworth, it might be only Percy Dacier.
So filmy of mere sensations are these little ideas as they flit in converse, that she did not reflect on her friend's ignorance of Redworth's love of her, or on the unlikely choice of one in Dacier's high station to reinstate a damsel. They did not name the person. 'Passing the instance, which is cruel, I will be just to society thus far,' said Diana.
'I was in a boat at Richmond last week, and Leander was revelling along the mud-banks, and took it into his head to swim out to me, and I was moved to take him on board.
The ladies in the boat objected, for he was not only wet but very muddy.
I was forced to own that their objections were reasonable.
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