[The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Amazing Marriage CHAPTER XX 6/23
She was wine and no penalty to me.
Is she much broken under it ?--if I 'm to credit...
I suppose I must.
It floors me.' Admiral Baldwin's frosty stare returned on him.
Gower caught an image of it, as comparable, without much straining, to an Arctic region smitten by the beams. 'Nothing breaks her courage,' he said. 'To be sure, my poor dear! Who could have guessed when she left my house she was on her way to a prizefight and a greengrocer's in Whitechapel. But the dog's not mad, though his bite 's bad; he 's an eccentric mongrel.
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