[One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookOne of Our Conquerors CHAPTER XVI 10/21
You and the magistrate have helped him to know who it is you serve, Skepsey.' 'Would you please to direct me, sir.' 'Another time.
Now go and ease your feet with a run over the town. We have music in half an hour.
That you like, I know.
See chiefly to amusing yourself.' Skepsey turned to go; he murmured, that he had enjoyed his trip. Victor checked him: it was to ask whether this Jarniman had specified one, any one of the numerous diseases afflicting his aged mistress. Now Jarniman had shocked Skepsey with his blunt titles for a couple of the foremost maladies assailing the poor lady's decayed constitution: not to be mentioned, Skepsey's thought, in relation to ladies; whose organs and functions we, who pay them a proper homage by restricting them to the sphere so worthily occupied by their mothers up to the very oldest date, respectfully curtain; their accepted masters are chivalrous to them, deploring their need at times for the doctors and drugs.
He stood looking most unhappy.
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