[The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Amazing Marriage CHAPTER XXXIV 18/24
The earl's adroitness, averting a collision fatal or discomforting to both, disengaged him from an incumbent odium, of which, it need hardly be stated, neither the lady nor her attendant cavaliers had any notion at the hour of the assembly for the start for England on the bridge of Pont-y-pridd.
The hungry mother had the safety of her babe in thought.
The hotheaded Welshmen were sworn to guard their heroine. That is the case presented by the Dame's papers, when the incredible is excised.
She claims the being a good friend to fiction in feeding popular voracity with all her stores.
But the Old Buccaneer, no professed friend to it, is a sounder guide in the maxim, where he says: Deliver yourself by permit of your cheque on the 'Bank of Reason, and your account is increased instead of lessened. Our account with credulity, he would signify. The Dame does not like the shaking for a sifting.
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