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The Short Works of George Meredith

CHAPTER II
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He has been the Count Caseldy of Continental gaming tables, and he is recently Sir Martin Caseldy, settled on the estate she made him free to take up intact on his father's decease.' 'Pah! a villain!' 'With a blacker brand upon him every morning that he looks forth across his property, and leaves her to languish! She still--I say it to the redemption of our sex--has offers.

Her incomparable attractions of mind and person exercise the natural empire of beauty.

But she will none of them.

I call her the Fair Suicide.

She has died for love; and she is a ghost, a good ghost, and a pleasing ghost, but an apparition, a taper.
The duke fidgeted, and expressed a hope to hear that she was not of melancholy conversation; and again, that the subject of her discourse was not confined to love and lovers, happy or unhappy.


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