[The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Amazing Marriage CHAPTER XXXVII 18/23
He will end a monk if he has the courage of his logic.
A queer spectacle--an English nobleman a shaven monk! Fleetwood shuddered.
We are twisted face about to discover our being saved by women from that horror--the joining the ranks of the nasal friars.
By what women? Bacchante, clearly, if the wife we have is a North-easter to wither us, blood, bone, and soul. He was hungry; he waxed furious with the woman who had flung him out upon the roads.
He was thirsty as well.
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