[The Celt and Saxon by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Celt and Saxon CHAPTER XIX 18/29
It is now five o'clock.
The air begins to chill.
Con will never forgive me if you catch a cold, and I would not incur his blame.' The eyes of Jane and Philip shot an exchange. 'Anything you command, madam,' said Philip. He looked up and breathed his heaven of fresh air.
Jane pitied, she could not interpose to thwart his act of resignation.
The farmer, home for tea, and a footman, took him between them, crutched, while Mrs. Adister said to Jane: 'The doctor's orders are positive:--if he is to be a man once more, he must rest his back and not use his legs for months. He was near to being a permanent cripple from that fall.
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