[The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Amazing Marriage CHAPTER XVII 7/24
The dreaded weapon rest, also when she is kept spinning by the whip.
She gives out a pleasant hum, too.
Her complexion must be pronounced dull in repose.
A bride on her travels with an aspect of wet chalk, rather helps to scare mankind from marriage: which may be good or bad; but she reflects a sicklier hue on the captured Chessman calling her his own.
Let her shine in privacy. Fleetwood drew up at the Royal Sovereign, whereof the reigning monarch, in blue uniform on the signboard, curtseyed to his equally windy subjects; and a small congregation of the aged, and some cripples and infants, greeted the patron of Old England's manfullest display, cheering at news of the fight, brought them by many little runners. 'Your box has been conveyed to your room,' he said to his bride. She bowed.
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