[One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookOne of Our Conquerors CHAPTER VII 16/25
Miss Dreighton is one of the finest young women alive.
She has a glorious contralto voice.
Victor and she are encouraged by Mrs.Barman to sing duets together.
Well? Why, Euclid would have theorem'd it out for you at a glance at the trio. You have only to look on them, you chatter out your three Acts of a Drama without a stop.
If Mrs.Barman cares to practise charity, she has only to hold in her Fury-forked tongue, or her Jarniman I think 's the name.' Carting shrugged. 'Let her keep from striking, if she's Christian,' pursued Fenetlan, 'and if kind let her resume the name of her first lord, who did a better thing for himself than for her, when he shook off his bars of bullion, to rise the lighter, and left a wretched female soul below, with the devil's own testimony to her attractions--thousands in the Funds, houses in the City.
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