[One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookOne of Our Conquerors CHAPTER XXVII 16/19
And I will meet them.' She received a compliment.
She was on the foot to go. But she had forgotten the Tiddler mine. The Tiddler mine was leisurely mounting.
Victor stated the figures; he saluted her hand, and Lady Grace passed out, with her heart on the top of them, and a buzz about it of the unexpected having occurred She had her experiences to match new patterns in events; though not very many. Compared with gambling, the game of love was an idle entertainment. Compared with other players, this man was gifted. Victor went in to Mr.Inchling's room, and kept Inchling from speaking, that he might admire him for he knew not what, or knew not well what. The good fellow was devoted to his wife.
Victor in old days had called the wife Mrs.Grundy.She gossiped, she was censorious; she knew--could not but know--the facts; yet never by a shade was she disrespectful.
He had a curious recollection of how his knowledge of Inchling and his wife being always in concert, entirely--whatever they might think in private--devoted to him in action, had influenced, if it had not originally sprung, his resolve to cast off the pestilential cloak of obscurity shortening his days, and emerge before a world he could illumine to give him back splendid reflections.
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