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Something of the sort is still more noticeable in the work of other writers of the period. We have seen that two ladies of great talent, Mrs. Oliphant and Mrs. Craik, began to write, long before Mr. Meredith published Richard Feverel and very little later than the time of Vanity Fair.
It was Algernon who witnessed and chronicled young Richard's first fight, which was with young Tom Blaize of Belthorpe Farm, three years the boy's senior. Hippias Feverel was once thought to be the genius of the family.
Be your Rubicon big or small, clear or foul, it is the same: you shall not return. On or to Acheron! I subscribe to that saying of The Pilgrim's Scrip: "The danger of a little knowledge of things is disputable: but beware the little knowledge of one's self!" Richard Feverel was now crossing the River of his Ordeal.
The cup was full as ever. Richard dashed at it again. The draught grew more and more abhorrent. To proclaim one's iniquity, to apologize for one's wrongdoing; thus much could be done; but to beg a favour of the offended party that was beyond the self-abasement any Feverel could consent to.
No! great men's wives read "Sesame and Lilies," and "Sartor Resartus," and "Marius the Epicurean," and "Richard Feverel," and "Virginibus Puerisque," they even try to read Newman's "Apologia." Such were the books on the sunnier side of Theophilus Londonderry's little library in No. 3 Zion Place.
Show me among them a God-fearing family who educate their children I should prefer a girl without brothers and sisters as a Christian damsel should be educated say, on the model of my son, and she may be penniless, I will pledge her to Richard Feverel." Lady Blandish bit her lip. "And what do you do with Richard while you are absent on this expedition?"
9 SEA VIEW TERRACE, PENDRAGON, CORNWALL, October 14, 1906. Dear Mr. Trojan Thank you for the locket, the ring, and the letters which I have received. I regret that I must decline to part with the letters; surely it is not strange that I should wish to keep them. Yours truly, DAHLIA FEVEREL. What do you mean? You have no right to them. They are mine. I wrote them.
In the spring and early summer there is such an atmosphere about the countryside as George Meredith has created in his "Richard Feverel" when Richard and Lucy meet in "the very spring-tide of their youth."
An ambrosial footman, standing at the open door of Lord Mountfalcon's house, and a gentleman standing on the doorstep, told him that he was addressed by that nobleman. He was requested to step into the house. When they were alone, Lord Mountfalcon, slightly ruffled, said: "Feverel has insulted me grossly. I must meet him, of course. It's a piece of infernal folly! I suppose he is not quite mad?"
Adrian lifted and let fall the stupid inanimate limbs of the gone wretch, puckering his mouth queerly. "You were all reasonable and proper, ma'am. The principal male performer, then, is my cousin, Mr. Feverel? He was married by you, this morning, by licence at your parish church, and came here, and ate a hearty breakfast, and left intoxicated." Mrs. Berry flew out. "He never drink a drop, sir.
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