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Complete Short Works of George Meredith. George Meredith
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Автор произведения George Meredith
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Elizabeth inclined to be pleased with her, for at her suggestion the General had bought a couple of horses, that she might ride in the park, accompanied by her father or the little groom. Still, the great lady was hard to read. She tested the resources of his income by all sorts of instigation to expenditure, which his gallantry could not withstand; she encouraged him to talk of his deeds in arms; she was friendly, almost affectionate, and most bountiful in the presents of fruit, peaches, nectarines, grapes, and hot-house wonders, that she showered on his table; but she was an enigma in her evident dissatisfaction with him for something he seemed to have left unsaid. And what could that be?
At their last interview she had asked him, ‘Are you sure, General, you have nothing more to tell me?’
And as he remarked, when relating it to Elizabeth, ‘One might really be tempted to misapprehend her ladyship’s… I say one might commit oneself beyond recovery. Now, my dear, what do you think she intended?’
Elizabeth was ‘burning brown,’ or darkly blushing, as her manner was.
She answered, ‘I am certain you know of nothing that would interest her; nothing, unless…’
‘Well?’ the General urged her.
‘How can I speak it, papa?’
‘You really can’t mean…’
‘Papa, what could I mean?’
‘If I were fool enough!’ he murmured. ‘No, no, I am an old man. I was saying, I am past the age of folly.’
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