[The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link book
The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XVII
2/24

Then, drunk I'll get to-night, my pretty dear! the man muttered, soured by her inopportune staidness, as an opponent's bruisings could never have rendered him.
She smiled a lively beam in answer to the earl; 'Oh yes I 'm glad.

It's your doing, my lord.' Him it was that she thanked, and for the moment prized most.

The female riddle is hard to read, because it is compounded of sensations, and they rouse and appeal to the similar cockatrices in us, which either hiss back or coil upon themselves.

She admired Kit Ines for his valour: she hated that ruinous and besotting drink.

It flung skeletons of a married couple on the wall of the future.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books