[The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Amazing Marriage CHAPTER XVII 11/24
Here and there the thing has been found in women.
It is priceless when found, and she could not be acting.
One might swear the creature had no power to act. She spoke without offence, the simplest of words, affected no solicitudes, put on no gilt smiles, wore no reproaches: spoke to him as if so it happened--he had necessarily a journey to perform.
One could see all the while big drops falling from the wound within.
One could hear it in her voice.
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