[The Short Works of George Meredith by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link book
The Short Works of George Meredith

CHAPTER VII
13/15

He would fain have run away.

He glanced at it, and round about, and again at it, and at the heavens.

Her ladyship's cruelty, and his inexplicable submission to it, were witnessed of the multitude.
The General's friends walked very slowly.

Lady Camper's carriage whirled by, and the General came up with them, accosting them and himself alternately.

They asked him where Elizabeth was, and he replied, 'Poor child, yes! I am told she is pale, but I cannot, believe I am so perfectly, I say so perfectly ridiculous, when I join the responses.' He drew forth half a dozen sheets, and showed them sketches that Lady Camper had taken in church, caricaturing him in the sitting down and the standing up.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books