[The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Amazing Marriage CHAPTER V 5/21
The ladies, Chillon said, were cousins; one was a young widow, the Countess of Fleetwood, and the other was Miss Fakenham, a younger lady. Carinthia murmured in German: 'Poor soul!' Which one was she pitying? The widow, she said, in the tone implying, naturally. Her brother assured her the widow was used to it, for this was her second widowhood. 'She marries again!' exclaimed the girl. 'You don't like that idea ?' said he. Carinthia betrayed a delicate shudder. Her brother laughed to himself at her expressive present tense.
'And marries again!' he said.
'There will certainly be a third.' 'Husband ?' said she, as at the incredible. 'Husband, let's hope,' he answered. She dropped from her contemplation of the lady, and her look at her brother signified: It will not be you! Chillon was engaged in spying for a place where he could spread out the contents of his bag.
Sharp hunger beset them both at the mention of eating.
A bank of sloping green shaded by a chestnut proposed the seat, and here he relieved the bag of a bottle of wine, slices of, meat, bread, hard eggs, and lettuce, a chipped cup to fling away after drinking the wine, and a supply of small butler-cakes known to be favourites with Carinthia.
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