[The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Amazing Marriage CHAPTER XLIII 14/25
'I 've written my opinion,' he said. 'Not too severe, pray.' 'Posted.' 'Livia wanted a protector.' 'And chose--what on earth are you saying!' Livia and her boyish lord were abandoned on the spot, though Henrietta could have affirmed stoutly that there was much to be pleaded, if a female advocate dared it, and a man would but hear. His fingers were at the leaves of a Spanish dictionary. 'Oh yes, and here we have a book of Travels in Spain,' she said. 'Everything Spanish for Janey now.
You are aware ?--no ?' He was unaware and desired to be told. 'Janey's latest idea; only she would have conceived the notion.
You solve our puzzle, my lord.' She renewed the thanks she persisted in offering for the military music now just ceasing: vexatiously, considering that it was bad policy for him to be unmasking Brailstone to her.
At the same time, the blindness which rendered her unconscious of Brailstone's hand in sending members of a military band to play selections from the favourite opera they had jointly drunk of to ecstasy, was creditable; touching, when one thought of the pursuer's many devices, not omitting some treason on the part of her present friend. 'Tell me--I solve ?' he said.... Henrietta spied the donkey-basket bearing the two little ones. 'Yes, I hope so--on our way down,' she made answer.
'I want you to see the pair of love-birds in a nest.' The boy and girl were seen lying side by side, both fast asleep; fair-haired girl, dark-haired boy, faced to one another. 'Temper ?' said Fleetwood, when he had taken observation of them. 'Very imperious--Mr.Boy!' she replied, straightening her back under a pretty frown, to convey the humour of the infant tyrant. The father's mind ran swiftly on a comparison of the destinies of the two children, from his estimate of their parents; many of Gower Woodseer's dicta converging to reawaken thoughts upon Nature's laws, which a knowledge of his own nature blackened.
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