[The Celt and Saxon by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Celt and Saxon CHAPTER XVI 23/39
Or how if a traitorous? We point out the danger to him, and if he will run the country on to it, we proclaim him guilty either of inebriety or of treason--the alternatives are named: one or the other has him.
Simple unfitness can scarcely be conceived of a captain having our common senses and a warranted pilot at his elbow. Had not Rockney been given to a high expression of opinion, plain in fervour, he would often have been exposed bare to hostile shafts.
Style cast her aegis over him.
He wore an armour in which he could walk, run and leap-a natural style.
The ardour of his temperament suffused the directness of his intelligence to produce it, and the two qualities made his weakness and strength.
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