The Adventures of Harry Richmond. Volume 4

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George Meredith. The Adventures of Harry Richmond. Volume 4

CHAPTER XXIII. MY TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY

CHAPTER XXIV. I MEET THE PRINCESS

CHAPTER XXV. ON BOARD A YACHT

CHAPTER XXVI. IN VIEW OF THE HOHENZOLLERN'S BIRTHPLACE

CHAPTER XXVII. THE TIME OF ROSES

CHAPTER XXVIII. OTTILIA

CHAPTER XXIX. AN EVENING WITH DR. JULIUS VON KARSTEG

CHAPTER XXX. A SUMMER STORM, AND LOVE

CHAPTER XXXI. PRINCESS OTTILIA'S LETTER

CHAPTER XXXII. AN INTERVIEW WITH PRINCE ERNEST AND A MEETING WITH PRINCE OTTO

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Hearing that I had not slept at the hotel, the Rev. Ambrose rushed down to Riversley with melancholy ejaculations, and was made to rebound by the squire's contemptuous recommendation to him to learn to know something of the spirit of young bloods, seeing that he had the nominal charge of one, and to preach his sermon in secret, if he would be sermonizing out of church. The good gentleman had not exactly understood his duties, or how to conduct them. Far from objecting to find me in company with my father, as he would otherwise have done by transmitting information of that fact to Riversley, he now congratulated himself on it, and after the two had conversed apart, cordially agreed to our scheme of travelling together. The squire had sickened him. I believe that by comparison he saw in my father a better friend of youth.

'We shall not be the worse for a ghostly adviser at hand,' my father said to me with his quaintest air of gravity and humour mixed, which was not insincerely grave, for the humour was unconscious. 'An accredited casuist may frequently be a treasure. And I avow it, I like to travel with my private chaplain.'

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'How nice this sea-air is!' she spoke in English. 'England and sea go together in my thoughts. And you are here! I have been down very low, near the lowest. But your good old sea makes me breathe again. I want to toss on it. Have you yet seen the Markgrafin?'

My father explained that we had just landed from the boat.

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