[The Short Works of George Meredith by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Short Works of George Meredith CHAPTER III 17/24
I seemed to go in and grow up again, after I was raised to fortune.
And nobody to tell of it! Fancy that! For you can't talk to old gentlemen about what's going on in your heart.' 'How of young gentlemen ?' she was asked by the beau. And she replied, 'They find it out.' 'Not if you do not assist them,' said he. Duchess Susan let her eyelids and her underlie half drop, as she looked at him with the simple shyness of one of nature's thoughts in her head at peep on the pastures of the world.
The melting blue eyes and the cherry lip made an exceedingly quickening picture.
'Now, I wonder if that is true ?' she transferred her slyness to speech. 'Beware the middle-aged!' he exclaimed. She appealed to Chloe.
'And I'm sure they're the nicest.' Chloe agreed that they were. The duchess measured Chloe and the beau together, with a mind swift in apprehending all that it hungered for. She would have pursued the pleasing theme had she not been directed to gaze below upon the towers and roofs of the Wells, shining sleepily in a siesta of afternoon Summer sunlight. With a spread of her silken robe, she touched the edifice of her hair, murmuring to Chloe, 'I can't abide that powder.
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