[The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Amazing Marriage CHAPTER XXIX 21/25
Madge was promised by her mistress plenty of opportunities daily for seeing Kit Ines, and her mouth screwed to one of women's dimples at a corner.
She went off in a cart to fetch boxes, thinking: We are a hunted lot! So she was not mildly disposed for the company of Mr.Kit on her return to the castle. England's champion light-weight thought it hard that his, coming down to protect the castle against the gibbering heathen Welsh should cause a clearing out, and solitariness for his portion. 'What's the good of innocence if you 're always going to suspect a man!' he put it, like a true son of the pirates turned traders.
'I've got a paytron, and a man in my profession must have a paytron, or where is he? Where's his money for a trial of skill? Say he saves and borrows and finds the lump to clap it down, and he's knocked out o' time.
There he is, bankrup', and a devil of a licking into the bargain.
That 's the cream of our profession, if a man has got no paytron. No prize-ring can live without one.
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