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The romance of the blood-royal, for instance it would be hard to argue that the book honestly requires the high colour of that infusion, and all the pervading thrill that Meredith gets from it; Richmond Roy is largely gratuitous, a piece of indulgence on Meredith's part. But that objection is not likely to be pressed very severely, and anyhow Harry is firmly established in the forefront.
Just because she was so sure of her own love she felt that she could never betray the falseness of Millicent Chyne. She felt somehow that Millicent's fall in Jack Meredith's estimation would drag down with it the whole of her sex, and consequently herself. She did not dare to betray Millicent, because the honour of her sex must be held up by an exaggerated honour in herself.
A brigade of your own troops of the State we had come to fight for left us yesterday morning, when news came that Cornwallis was advancing upon our position at Newark. What can we do but retreat?" "Well, may I be dummed!" ejaculated Bagby, "if it is n't Squire Meredith's runaway bondsman, and dressed as fine as a fivepence!" The officer laughed scornfully. "Ay," he assented.
"Don't be silly, Beth you must be reading a fairy tale!" Nora's tone was scornful, but in a moment she was sorry. Alice, the youngest of the Meredith's clapped her hands happily, however, at Beth's suggestion. "It may be a real palace, Beth wouldn't that be delightful?"
At any other time the words just recorded would have aroused Jack Meredith's attention, but the singular slothfulness that seemed to be creeping over his intellect was already acting as a clog on his mental energy. The next morning he was unable to leave his bed, and lay all day in a state of semi-somnolence.
Archer, one of their best brigadiers, felt particularly sore when most of his men were rounded up by Meredith's "Iron Brigade." When Doubleday saw his old West Point friend a prisoner he shook hands cordially, saying, "Well, Archer, I AM glad to see you!" But Archer answered, "Well, I'm not so glad to see YOU not by a damned sight!"
Well for those who may read the papers without personal knowledge of what happens when such a combat has begun; but to know, and to be useless; to be looking with that knowledge at Meredith's country in radiant April!
Then Arbuthnot said: "Do you remember that wonderful chapter in Meredith's Egoist when Sir Willoughby Patterne offers the second bottle of the Patterne Port to Doctor Middleton, Clara's father and the old fellow says: 'I have but a girl to give? Well, I feel like that. This is the most wonderful eating that humanity has ever devised. I'm not a glutton. If I were I should have sampled this before.
But I have always found, as one of George Meredith's characters says, that observation is perhaps the most abiding pleasure in life, and I watched with great amusement the antics of a sprucely-dressed young fellow who sat on the step behind, and held a facetious conversation with the pleasant officer who "delivered" us at Holloway. This natty blade was, I presumed, our driver.
That which made Sir John so uneasy was the abiding knowledge that Jack's wedding-day would dawn in twelve hours. The margin was much too small, through, however, no fault of Sir John's. The West African steamer had been delayed unaccountably two days. A third day lost in the Atlantic would have overthrown Sir John Meredith's plan.
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