The Hand of Ethelberta, Vol. 2 of 2: A Comedy in Chapters (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Hardy, Thomas

9781331440345: The Hand of Ethelberta, Vol. 2 of 2: A Comedy in Chapters (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Hand of Ethelberta, Vol. 2 of 2: A Comedy in Chapters

She was not sure that Neigh would stand the test of her revelations. It would be possible to lead him to marry her without revealing anything - the events of the last few days had shown her that - yet Ethel berta's honesty shrank from the safe course of holding her tongue. It might be a pleasant surprise to many a modern gentleman of birth to find himself allied with a lady, none of whose ancestors had ever pandered to a court, lost an army, taken a bribe, oppressed a com munity, or broken a bank; but the added disclosure that, in avoiding these normal stains, her kindred had worked and continued to work with their hands for bread, might lead such an one to consider that the novelty was dearly purchased by a mover in circles from which the greatest ostraciser of all is servitude.

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Excerpt from The Hand of Ethelberta, Vol. 2 of 2: A Comedy in Chapters

The question of Neigh or no Neigh liad readied a pitch of insistence which no longer permitted dallying, even by a popular beauty. His character was becoming defined to Ethelberta as something very differently composed from that of her first imagining. She had set him down to be a man whose habitual inexcitability owed nothing to self-repression, but stood as the natural uncoated margin of the mass within. As were the cliffs of her new domain, so were the quarries, she had thought. Neigh's urban torpor, she said, might have been in the first instance produced by art, but, were it thus, it had gone so far as to permeate rather than encrust him.

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