[One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookOne of Our Conquerors CHAPTER XXIV 7/33
To love a girl, who has her ideal of a man elsewhere in another; though she may know she never can wed the man, and has not the hope of it; is torment to the lover quailing, as we do in this terrible season of the priceless deliciousness, stripped against all the winds that blow; skinless at times.
One gets up a sympathy for the poor shy dependent shivering lover.
Nevertheless, here was young Dudley waking, visibly becoming bolder.
As in the flute-duets, he gained fire from concert.
The distance between Cronidge and Moorsedge was two miles and a quarter. Instead of the delay of a whole week, Victor granted four days, which embraced a musical evening at Mrs.John Cormyn's on the last of the days, when Nesta was engaged to sing with her mother a duet of her own composition, the first public fruit of her lessons in counterpoint from rigid Herr Strauscher, who had said what he had said, in letting it pass: eulogy, coming from him.
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