[One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookOne of Our Conquerors CHAPTER XIX 23/31
Nesta set him going.
Just when he was about to begin, she made her father laugh by crying out in a rapture, 'Oh! Delphica!' For she was naughtily aware of Dudley Sowerby's distaste for the story and disgust with the damsel Delphica. Nesta gave Dr.Themison the preliminary sketch of the grand object of the expedition: indeed one of the eminent ones of the world; matter for an Epic; though it is to be feared, that our part in it will not encourage a Cis-Atlantic bard.
To America the honours from beginning to end belong. So, then, Japan has decided to renounce its language, for the adoption of the language it may choose among the foremost famous European tongues.
Japan becomes the word for miraculous transformations of a whole people at the stroke of a wand; and let our English enrol it as the most precious of the powerful verbs.
An envoy visits the principal Seats of Learning in Europe.
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