[The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Amazing Marriage CHAPTER XXIV 4/14
I hold Sir Meeson under lock.
But a spiced incident, a notorious couple,--an anecdotal witness to the scene,--could you expect Mr.Rose Mackrell to contain it? The sacredest of oaths, my dear!' That relentless force impelling an anecdotist to slaughter families for the amusement of dinner-tables, was brought home to Henrietta by her prospect of being a victim; and Livia reminding her of the excessive laughter at Rose Mackrell's anecdotes overnight, she bemoaned her having consented to go to those Gardens in mourning. 'How could Janey possibly have heard of the project to go? 'You went to please Russett, he to please you, and that wild-cat to please herself,' said Livia.
'She haunts his door, I suppose, and follows him, like a running footman.
Every step she takes widens the breach.
He keeps his temper, yes, keeps his temper as he keeps his word, and one morning it breaks loose, and all that's done has to be undone. It will bemust.
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