[The Short Works of George Meredith by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Short Works of George Meredith CHAPTER V 3/11
Mr.Tinman has to be in London to-morrow." Crickledon looked.
He was not the man to look artful, but there was a lighted corner in his look that revived Fellingham's recollections, and the latter burst out: "The Address? I 'd half forgotten it.
That's not over yet? Has he been practicing much ?" "No more glasses ha' been broken." "And how is your wife, Crickledon ?" "She's at home, sir, ready for a talk, if you've a mind to try her." Mrs.Crickledon proved to be very ready.
"That Tinman," was her theme. He had taken away her lodgers, and she knew his objects.
Mr.Smith repented of leaving her, she knew, though he dared not say it in plain words.
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