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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete. George Meredith
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isbn 4057664635518
Автор произведения George Meredith
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George Meredith
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4057664635518
Table of Contents
The conversation between solicitor and client was resumed.
Behold the hero embarked in the redemption of an erring beautiful woman.
1905
CHAPTER I
Some years ago a book was published under the title of “The Pilgrim's Scrip.” It consisted of a selection of original aphorisms by an anonymous gentleman, who in this bashful manner gave a bruised heart to the world.
He made no pretension to novelty. “Our new thoughts have thrilled dead bosoms,” he wrote; by which avowal it may be seen that youth had manifestly gone from him, since he had ceased to be jealous of the ancients. There was a half-sigh floating through his pages for those days of intellectual coxcombry, when ideas come to us affecting the embraces of virgins, and swear to us they are ours