[The Celt and Saxon by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Celt and Saxon CHAPTER XI 6/17
I disapprove of telegrams.' She was asking to be assisted, so her husband said: 'Take Patrick for a secretary.Dictate.He has a bold free hand and'll supply all the fiorituri and arabesques necessary to the occasion running.' She gazed at Patrick as if to intimate that he might be enlisted, and said: 'It will be to Caroline.
She will break it to her uncle.' 'Right, madam, on the part of a lady I 've never known to be wrong! And so, my dear, I must take leave of you, to hurry down to the tormented intestines of that poor racked city, where the winds of panic are violently engaged in occupying the vacuum created by knocking over what the disaster left standing; and it 'll much resemble a colliery accident there, I suspect, and a rescue of dead bodies.
Adieu, my dear.' He pressed his lips on her thin fingers. Patrick placed himself at Mrs.Adister's disposal as her secretary.
She nodded a gracious acceptance of him. 'I recommended the telegraph because it's my wife's own style, and comes better from wires,' said the captain, as they were putting on their overcoats in the hall.
'You must know the family.
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