[The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link book
The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER XLV
6/20

He has got rid of one to take up with a viler.
First, a sluttish trollop of German origin is foisted on him for life; next, he is misled to abjure the faith of his fathers for Rome.

But patently, desperation in the husband of such a wife weakened his resistance to the Roman Catholic pervert's insinuations.

There we punctuate the full stop to our inquiries; we have the secret.
And upon that, suddenly comes a cyclonic gust; and gossip twirls, whines, and falls to the twanging of an entirely new set of notes, that furnish a tolerably agreeable tune, on the whole.

O hear! The Marchioness of Arpington proclaims not merely acquaintanceship with Lord Fleetwood's countess, she professes esteem for the young person.

She has been heard to say, that if the Principality of Wales were not a royal title, a dignity of the kind would be conferred by the people of those mountains on the Countess of Fleetwood: such unbounded enthusiasm there was for her character when she sojourned down there.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books