[Sandra Belloni by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookSandra Belloni CHAPTER XV 7/41
My argumentative sister does not coincide.
If she did, she would lose her argument. "Adieu! Such is my dulness, I doubt whether I have made my meaning clear. "Your thrice affectionate "Adela. "P.S .-- Lady Gosstre has just taken Emilia to Richford for a week.
Papa starts for Bidport to-morrow." This short and rather blunt exercise in Fine Shades was read impatiently by Wilfrid.
"Why doesn't she write plain to the sense ?" he asked, with the usual injustice of men, who demand a statement of facts, forgetting how few there are to feed the post; and that indication and suggestion are the only language for the multitude of facts unborn and possible. Twilight best shows to the eye what may be. "I suppose I must go down there," he said to himself, keeping a meditative watch on the postscript, as if it possessed the capability of slipping away and deceiving him.
"Does she mean that Cornelia sees too much of this man Barrett? or, what does she mean ?" And now he saw meanings in the simple passages, and none at all in the intricate ones; and the double-meanings were monsters that ate one another up till nothing remained of them.
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