[The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Adventures of Harry Richmond CHAPTER XXVII 24/31
But English is the choice gathering of languages, and honey is hybrid, unless you condemn the bee to suck at a single flower.' 'Ha! you strain compliments like the poet Fretzel,' the margravine exclaimed.
'Luckily, they're not, addressed to human creatures.
You will find the villa dull, Herr Harry Richmond.
For my part, every place is dull to me that your father does not enliven.
We receive no company in the prince's absence, so we are utterly cut off from fools; we have simply none about us.' 'The deprivation is one we are immensely sensible of!' said the princess. 'Laugh on! you will some day be aware of their importance in daily life, Ottilia.' The princess answered: 'If I could hate, it would be such persons.' A sentence that hung in the memory of one knowing himself to be animated by the wildest genius of folly. We drove to the statue of Prince Albrecht Wohlgemuth, overlooking leagues of snow-roofed branches.
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