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One of Our Conquerors (Volume 2)

One of Our Conquerors (Volume 2)

Meredith, George

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1235011828
ISBN13: 9781235011825
Publisher: General Books
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.11 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1891. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. Nesta's Engagement. A WORD in his ear from Fenellan, touching that man Blathenoy, set the wheels of Victor's brain at work upon his defences, for a minute, on the walk Westward. Who knew ?--who did not know! He had a torpid consciousness that he cringed to the world, with an entreaty to the great monster to hold off in ignorance; and the next instant, he had caught its miserable spies by the lurcher neck and was towering. He dwelt on his contempt of them, to curtain the power they could stir. The little woman, you say, took to Dartrey? Fenellan, with the usual apologetic moderation of a second statement, thought there was the look of it. Well, we must watch over her. Dartrey! --but Dartrey's an honest fellow with women. But men are men. Very few men spare a woman when the mad fit is on her. A little woman--pretty little woman !--wife to Jacob Blathenoy! She mustn't at her age have any close choosing--under her hand. And Dartrey's just the figure to strike a spark in a tinder-box head. With a husband who'd reduce Minerva's to tinder, after a month of him! He spent his honeymoon at his place at Wrensham; told me so. Blathenoy had therefore then heard of the building of Lakelands by the Victor B>adnor of the City; and had then, we guess--in the usual honeymoon boasting of a windbag with his bride--wheezed the foul gossip, to hide his emptiness and. do duty for amusement of the pretty little caged bird. Probably so. But Victor knew that Blathenoy needed him and feared him. Probably the wife had been enjoined to keep silence; for the Blachingtons, Fannings and others were, it could be sworn, blank and unscratched folio sheets on the subject: -- as yet; unless Mrs. Burman had dropped venom. One pities the little woman, eh, Fenellan? Dartrey won'...

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