[The Celt and Saxon by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Celt and Saxon CHAPTER XVII 21/30
'Now Patrick had been having a peep at Vienna, hadn't he ?' 'He had; he was fresh from Vienna when I met him.
As to Ireland, the harvest was only middling good last year.' 'And that's the bit of luck we depend on.
A cloud too much, and it's drowned! Had he seen, do you know, anybody in Vienna ?--you were not long together at Trieste ?' Mr.Colesworth had sufficient quickness to perceive that the two questions could be answered as one, and saying: 'He was disappointed,' revealed that he and Patrick had been long enough together to come to terms of intimacy. 'To be sure, he gave you a letter of introduction to his family!' said Con.
'And permit me to add, that Patrick's choice of a friend is mine on trust.
The lady he was for seeing, Mr.Colesworth, was just then embarking on an adventure of a romantic character, particularly well suited to her nature, and the end of it was a trifle sanguinary, and she suffered a disappointment also, though not perhaps on that account.' 'I heard of it in England last year,' said Mr.Colesworth.
<<Back Index Next>> D-Link book Top TWC mobile books
|