[The Celt and Saxon by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Celt and Saxon CHAPTER V 8/8
And there's a quantity of our blood in Spain too.
We've watered many lands.' The poor young English lady's brain started wildly on the effort to be with him, and to understand whether she listened to humour or emotion: she reposed herself as well as she could in the contemplation of an electrically-flashing maze, where every line ran losing itself in another. He added: 'Old Philip!' in a visible throb of pity for his brother; after the scrupulous dubitation between the banner and the pennon of the Cid! It would have comforted her to laugh.
She was closer upon tears, and without any reason for them in her heart. Such a position brings the hesitancy which says that the sitting is at an end. She feared, as she laid aside her music-books, that there would be more to come about Adiante, but he spared her.
He bowed to her departing, and strolled off by himself..
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