[Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookDiana of the Crossways CHAPTER III 8/23
The thrill of her voice in speaking of soldier-heroes shot him to the yonder side of a gulf.
Not knowing why, for he had no scheme, desperate or other, in his head, the least affrighted of men was frightened by her tastes, and by her aplomb, her inoffensiveness in freedom of manner and self-sufficiency--sign of purest breeding: and by her easy, peerless vivacity, her proofs of descent from the blood of Dan Merion--a wildish blood.
The candour of the look of her eyes in speaking, her power of looking forthright at men, and looking the thing she spoke, and the play of her voluble lips, the significant repose of her lips in silence, her weighing of the words he uttered, for a moment before the prompt apposite reply, down to her simple quotation of Pat, alarmed him; he did not ask himself why.
His manly self was not intruded on his cogitations.
A mere eight hundred or thousand per annum had no place in that midst.
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