[The Short Works of George Meredith by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Short Works of George Meredith CHAPTER VIII 9/17
And the smell of my own property makes me feel my legs again.
And I'll tell you what, Mr. Hubbard, as Netty calls you when she speaks of you in private: Mart Tinman's ideas of wine are pretty much like his ideas of healthy smells, and when I'm bailiff of Crikswich, mind, he'll find two to one against him in our town council.
I love my country, but hang me if I don't purify it--" Saying this, with the excitement of a high resolve a upon him, Van Diemen bored through a shrubbery-brake, and Fellingham said to Annette: "Have I lost you ?" "I belong to my father," said she, contracting and disengaging her feminine garments to step after him in the cold silver-spotted dusk of the winter woods. Van Diemen came out on a fish-pond. "Here you are, young ones!" he said to the pair.
"This way, Fellowman. I'm clearer now, and it's my belief I've been talking nonsense. I'm puffed up with money, and have n't the heart I once had.
I say, Fellowman, Fellowbird, Hubbard--what's your right name ?--fancy an old carp fished out of that pond and flung into the sea.
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