[The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Amazing Marriage CHAPTER XI 10/27
You know his vanity to be a military quite as much as a naval commander like the Greeks and Romans, he says.
We took the bruised man into our carriage and drove him to camp, Carinthia nursing him on the way.' 'Carinthia! She's well fitted with her name.
What with her name and her hair and her build and her singular style of attire, one wonders at her coming into civilized parts.
She 's utterly unlike Chillon.' Henrietta reddened at the mention of one of her own thoughts in the contrasting of the pair. They had their points of likeness, she said. It did not concern Livia to hear what these were.
Back to Baden, with means to procure the pleasant shocks of the galvanic battery there, was her thought; for she had a fear of the earl's having again departed in a huff at Henrietta's behaviour. The admiral consented that his daughter should go, as soon as he heard that Miss Kirby was to stay.
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