The Works of George Meredith, Volume 6

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C. Scribner's sons, 1896
 

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Page 61 - He has little character for the moment. Most youths are like Pope's women; they have no character at all. And indeed a character that does not wait for circumstances to shape it, is of small worth in the race that must be run.
Page 118 - Nevertheless, they to whom mortal life has ceased to be a long matter perceive that our appeals for conviction are answered — now and then very closely upon the call. When we have cast off the scales of hope and fancy, and, surrender our claims on mad chance, it is given us to see that some plan is working out : that the heavens, icy as they are to the pangs of our blood, have been throughout speaking to our souls ; and, according to the strength there existing, we learn to comprehend them.
Page 65 - My oath on it, I don't get took in again by a squash hat in a hurry ! ' Unaware of the ban he had, by a sixpenny stamp, put upon an unoffending class, Evan went a-head, hearing the wheels of the chariot still dragging the road in his rear. The postillion was in a dissatisfied state of mind. He had asked and received more than his due. But in the matter of his sweet self, he had been choused, as he termed it. And my gentleman had baffled him, he could not quite tell how ; but he had been got the better...
Page 1 - LONG after the hours when tradesmen are in the habit of commencing business, the shutters of a certain shop in the town of Lymport-on-the-Sea remained significantly closed, and it became known that death had taken Mr. Melchisedec Harrington, and struck one off the list of living tailors.

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