[The Short Works of George Meredith by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Short Works of George Meredith CHAPTER VIII 10/22
Well? The collar is the fatal finishing touch in men's dress; it would make Apollo look bourgeois.' Her hand was in his: and watching the play of her features, a spark entered General Ople's brain, causing him, in forgetfulness of collar and caricatures, to ejaculate, 'Seventy? Did your ladyship say seventy? Utterly impossible! You trifle with me.' 'We will talk when we are free of this accompaniment of carriage-wheels, General,' said Lady Camper. 'I will beg permission to go and fetch Elizabeth, madam.' 'Rightly thought of.
Fetch her in my carriage.
And, by the way, Mrs. Baerens was my old music-mistress, and is, I think, one year older than I.She can tell you on which side of seventy I am.' 'I shall not require to ask, my lady,' he said, sighing. 'Then we will send the carriage for Elizabeth, and have it out together at once.
I am impatient; yes, General, impatient: for what ?--forgiveness.' 'Of me, my lady ?' The General breathed profoundly. 'Of whom else? Do you know what it is ?-I don't think you do.
You English have the smallest experience of humanity.
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