[The Celt and Saxon by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Celt and Saxon CHAPTER III 13/17
She was the Miss Adister; and how, and why? No one else accompanied them on their march to the dinner-table.
Patrick pursued his double task of hunting his thousand speculations and conversing fluently, so that it is not astonishing if, when he retired to his room, the impression made on him by this young Caroline was inefficient to distinguish her from the horde of her baptismal sisters.
And she had a pleasant face: he was able to see that, and some individuality in the look of it, the next morning; and then he remembered the niceness of her manners.
He supposed her to have been educated where the interfusion of a natural liveliness with a veiling retenue gives the title of lady.
She had enjoyed the advantage of having an estimable French lady for her governess, she informed him, as they sauntered together on the terrace. 'A Protestant, of course,' Patrick spoke as he thought. 'Madame Dugue is a Catholic of Catholics, and the most honourable of women.' 'That I'll believe; and wasn't for proselytisms,' said he. 'Oh, no: she was faithful to her trust.' 'Save for the grand example!' 'That,' said Caroline, 'one could strive to imitate without embracing her faith.' 'There's my mind clear as print!' Patrick exclaimed.
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