[The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Amazing Marriage CHAPTER XL 25/28
It seems the nearest we can come at.
He's a sot, and drunken dogs 'll do anything.
I've had him on my hands, and I've got the stain of him.' They trotted through Esslemont Park gates.
'I've got that place, Calesford, on my hands, too,' the earl said, suddenly moved to a liking for his Kentish home. He and Gower were struck by a common thought of the extraordinary burdens his indulgence in impulses drew upon him.
Present circumstances pictured to Gower the opposing weighed and matured good reason for his choosing Madge, and he complimented himself in his pity for the earl. But Fleetwood, as he reviewed a body of acquaintances perfectly free from the wretched run in harness, though they had their fits and their whims, was pushed to the conclusion that fatalism marked his particular course through life.
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