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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: This was a thrust at Emily. The keen-eyed old lady had noticed the flirtation between her and Robert, and thought the best cure was to make fun of it. Never, mind, mother, said Crockford. Poor Nelly's been on the south side of the churchyard this many a long year. So, indeed, she had, having ended her weak and weary life by straying away from the house in which she was a servant, and dying a vagrant on the high road, leaving behind her a vague sensation of pity, and a romantic legend not unlikely to attract imitators. It is perchance the worst vice of modern novel-writing (and I fearlessly accuse George Eliot as chief offender) that the favourite heroine is the silly girl who has become meretricious through mere silliness. Why cannot writers of real genius perceive that there is no creature so delightful to describe and bring into action as the true lady ? Think of Homer's Nau- sikaa?of Shakespeare's Rosalind, ?and compare them with somebody who cometh up as a flower, or throweth her husband down a well. And now, young master, what's brought you here to breakfast ? Not my rashers, I'll swear? though they're of pure good Hampshire hogs I grew myself. You're in a queer state, by your eye it's easy to see (I'm a fizzynomist); you want change. Go abroad, J say, and learn the habits of more enlightened . countries than this here England. You know, Mr. Robert, though I'm not a Wat Tyler or a Jack Cade, I think theQueen and the House of Lords are rather superfluous. But I go further than that, I object to the House of Commons, with all its talk and tattle and rates and taxes. Why, Lord bless you, I went there once, and was put in what they call the Strangers' Gallery, as if I were a stranger in England, when we Crockfords have been in Erling- ham four hundred years, as th...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217145848 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217145841 |
| Weight | 0.46 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.31 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 134 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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