[One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookOne of Our Conquerors CHAPTER IX 4/24
That water has three springs and gets all the drainage of the upland round us.
I chose the place chiefly on account of it and the pines.
I do love pines!' 'But, excellent man! what do you not love ?' said Lady Grace, with the timely hit upon the obvious, which rings. 'It saves him from accumulation of tissue,' said Colney. 'What does ?' was eagerly asked by the wife of the homoeopathic Dr.John Cormyn, a sentimental lady beset with fears of stoutness. Victor cried: 'Tush; don't listen to Colney, pray.' But she heard Colney speak of a positive remedy; more immediately effective than an abjuration of potatoes and sugar.
She was obliged by her malady to listen, although detesting the irreverent ruthless man, who could direct expanding frames, in a serious tone, to love; love everybody, everything; violently and universally love; and so without intermission pay out the fat created by a rapid assimilation of nutriment.
Obeseness is the most sensitive of our ailments: probably as being aware, that its legitimate appeal to pathos is ever smothered in its pudding-bed of the grotesque.
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