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Sir Austin drew him nearer and nearer, till the beloved head was on his breast. An hour afterwards, Adrian Harley, Austin Wentworth, and Algernon Feverel were summoned to the baronet's study. Adrian came last.
Again, the weather may be used to determine the action: in Mr. Kipling's early story called "False Dawn," the blinding sandstorm causes Saumarez to propose to the wrong girl. Or it may be employed as a controlling influence over character: the tremendous storm toward the end of "Richard Feverel," in the chapter entitled "Nature Speaks," determines the return of the hero to his wife.
It is heart-rending in its emotional intensity and almost faultless in expression. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, like most of Meredith's works, contains more than a love story. Many chapters of high-class comedy and epigrammatical wit serve to explode a fallacious educational theory. The Egoist has for its special aim the portrayal and exposure of masculine egotism.
If he avowed Tom's manly behaviour, Richard Feverel was in a totally new position. Whereas, by keeping Tom a coward, Richard Feverel was the injured one, and to seem injured is always a luxury; sometimes a necessity, whether among boys or men. In Austin the Magian conflict would not have lasted long. He had but a blind notion of the fierceness with which it raged in young Richard.
Her voice dropped a little, as though to refer gently to her own fatherless condition. Mrs. Feverel, a dark shadow in the window, sighed heavily. "Oh! the Governor!" said Robin, a little irritably. "No! It's rather difficult he doesn't seem to know what to do and say. I suppose it's being in New Zealand so long! It makes it rather difficult for me."
"I am scarcely surprised," said Harry, "that Robin is ashamed of the affair." "Of course he is," answered Clare eagerly, "bitterly ashamed." "I suppose you made love to ah Miss Feverel?" he said, turning directly to Robin. "Yes," said Robin, lifting his head and facing his father. As their eyes met the colour rushed to his cheeks. "It was a rotten thing to do," said Harry.
Feverel, to name a possible price yourself?" Afterwards, on looking back, he felt that his expectations had been perfectly justified; she had, up to that point, given him every reason to take the line that he adopted. She had listened to the first part of his speech without remark; she must, he reflected afterwards, have known what was coming, yet she had given no sign that she heard.
"It is good of you to have taken so much trouble simply about a few letters and you really might have written, mightn't you, and saved yourself a personal visit?" He refused to sit down and drew himself up. "Now I warn you, Miss Feverel," he said, "that this is no laughing matter. You are doing a very foolish thing in keeping the letters very foolish ah! um!
When we have gone out and seized it on the highways, certain inscrutable laws are sure to be at work to bring us to the criminal bar, sooner or later. Who knows the honeymoon that did not steal somebody's sweetness? Richard Turpin went forth, singing "Money or life" to the world: Richard Feverel has done the same, substituting "Happiness" for "Money," frequently synonyms.
Sir Austin from his lofty watch-tower of the System had foreseen it, he said. But when he came to hear that the youth was writing poetry, his wounded heart had its reasons for being much disturbed. "Surely," said Lady Blandish, "you knew he scribbled?" "A very different thing from writing poetry," said the baronet. "No Feverel has ever written poetry."
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