[The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Amazing Marriage CHAPTER XXIX 23/25
My paytron's a gentleman: he wouldn't ask and I couldn't act such a part.
Dear Lord! it'd have to be stealing off, for my lady can use a stick; and put it to the choice between my lady and her child and any paytron living, paytron be damned, I'd say, rather'n go against my notions of honour.
Have you forgot all our old talk about the prize-ring, the nursery of honour in Old England ?' 'That was before you sold yourself to a paytron, Kit Ines.' 'Ah! Women wants mast-heading off and on, for 'em to have a bit of a look-out over life as it is.
They go stewing over books of adventure and drop into frights about awful man.
Take me, now; you had a no small admiration for my manly valour once, and you trusted yourself to me, and did you ever repent it ?--owning you're not the young woman to tempt to t' other way.' 'You wouldn't have found me talking to you here if I had.' 'And here I'm left to defend an empty castle, am I ?' 'Don't drink or you'll have your paytron on you.
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