[The Celt and Saxon by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Celt and Saxon CHAPTER VI 1/28
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A CONSULTATION: WITH OPINIONS UPON WELSHWOMEN AND THE. CAMBRIAN RACE Later in the day she heard that he was out scouring the country on one of her uncle's horses.
She had too many distressing matters to think of for so singular a young man to have any other place than that which is given to the fantastical in a troubled and serious mind.
He danced there like the whimsy sunbeam of a shaken water below.
What would be his opinion of Adiante if he knew of her determination to sell the two fair estates she inherited from a grandmother whom she had venerated; that she might furnish arms to her husband to carry out an audacious enterprise likely to involve both of them in blood and ruin? Would he not bound up aloft and quiver still more wildly? She respected, quaint though it was, his imaginative heat of feeling for Adiante sufficiently to associate him with her so far; and she lent him in fancy her own bewilderment and grief at her cousin's conduct, for the soothing that his exaggeration of them afforded her.
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