[The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Amazing Marriage CHAPTER XXIV 11/14
Janey perverted her. Women were an illegible manuscript, and ladies a closed book of the binding, to this raw philosopher, or he would not so coldly have judged the young wife, anxious on her husband's account, that they might escape another scorching.
He carried away his impression. Livia listened to a remark on his want of manners. 'Russett puts it to the credit of his honesty,' she said.
'Honesty is everything with us at present.
The man has made his honesty an excellent speculation.
He puts a piece on zero and the bank hands him a sackful. We may think we have won him to serve us, up comes his honesty.
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