[Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookDiana of the Crossways CHAPTER VIII 10/41
I shall find it.
Write what you have to say, my lady, and confide it to me.
She shall have it to-night, if she's where you suppose.
I 'll go, with your permission, and take a look at the mare.
Sussex roads are heavy in this damp weather, and the frost coming on won't improve them for a tired beast. We haven't our rails laid down there yet.' 'You make me admit some virtues in the practical,' said Lady Dunstane; and had the poor fellow vollied forth a tale of the everlastingness of his passion for Diana, it would have touched her far less than his exact memory of Diana's description of her loved birthplace. She wrote: 'I trust my messenger to tell you how I hang on you.
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