[The Sleeper Awakes by H.G. Wells]@TWC D-Link bookThe Sleeper Awakes CHAPTER XV 25/33
The phrase at the time made no deep impression, but afterwards it recurred;--the Black Labour Master? The little lady in no degree embarrassed, pointed out to him a charming little woman as one of the subsidiary wives of the Anglican Bishop of London.
She added encomiums on the episcopal courage--hitherto there had been a rule of clerical monogamy--"neither a natural nor an expedient condition of things.
Why should the natural development of the affections be dwarfed and restricted because a man is a priest ?" "And, bye the bye," she added, "are you an Anglican ?" Graham was on the verge of hesitating inquiries about the status of a "subsidiary wife," apparently an euphemistic phrase, when Lincoln's return broke off this very suggestive and interesting conversation.
They crossed the aisle to where a tall man in crimson, and two charming persons in Burmese costume (as it seemed to him) awaited him diffidently.
From their civilities he passed to other presentations. In a little while his multitudinous impressions began to organise themselves into a general effect.
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