[The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Amazing Marriage CHAPTER XXVII 8/19
And besides, he was he, the unriddled, complex, individual he; she was the plain barbarian survival, good for giving her offspring bone, muscle, stout heart. Shape the hypothesis of a fairer woman the mother of the heir to the earldom. Henrietta was analyzed in a glimpse.
Courage, animal healthfulness, she, too, might--her husband not obstructing--transmit; and good looks, eyes of the sapphire AEgean.
And therewith such pliability as the Mother of Love requires of her servants. Could that woman resist seductions? Fleetwood's wrath with her for refusing him and inducing him in spite to pledge his word elsewhere, haphazard, pricked a curiosity to know whether the woman could be--and easily! easily! he wagered--led to make her conduct warrant for his contempt of her.
Led,--that is, misled, you might say, if you were pleading for a doll.
But it was necessary to bait the pleasures for the woman, in order to have full view of the precious fine fate one has escaped.
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