Complete Short Works of George Meredith
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George Meredith. Complete Short Works of George Meredith
FARINA
THE WHITE ROSE CLUB
THE TAPESTRY WORD
THE WAGER
THE SILVER ARROW
THE LILIES OF THE VALLEY
THE MISSIVES
THE MONK
THE RIDE AND THE RACE
THE COMBAT ON DRACHENFELS
THE GOSHAWK LEADS
WERNER’S ECK
THE WATER-LADY
THE RESCUE
THE PASSAGE OF THE RHINE
THE BACK-BLOWS OF SATHANAS
THE ENTRY INTO COLOGNE
CONCLUSION
THE CASE OF GENERAL OPLE AND LADY CAMPER
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
THE TALE OF CHLOE AN EPISODE IN THE HISTORY OF BEAU BEAMISH
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
THE HOUSE ON THE BEACH
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
THE GENTLEMAN OF FIFTY AND THE DAMSEL OF NINETEEN
CHAPTER I. HE
CHAPTER II. SHE
CHAPTER III. HE
CHAPTER IV. SHE
CHAPTER V. HE
CHAPTER VI. SHE
THE SENTIMENTALISTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
SCENE I. PROFESSOR SPIRAL, DAME DRESDEN, LADY OLDLACE, VIRGINIA, WINIFRED, SWITHIN, and OSIER
SCENE II. HOMEWARE, ARDEN
SCENE III. HOMEWARE, ARDEN, LYRA
SCENE IV. DAME DRESDEN, LADY OLDLACE, VIRGINIA, WINIFRED, ARDEN, SWITHIN, OSIER
SCENE V. ASTRAEA, LYRA
SCENE VI. ASTRAEA, ARDEN
SCENE VII. ASTRAEA, ARDEN, HOMEWARE
SCENE VIII. ARDEN, HOMEWARE
MISCELLANEOUS PROSE
INTRODUCTION TO W. M. THACKERAY’S “THE FOUR GEORGES”
A PAUSE IN THE STRIFE—1886
CONCESSION TO THE CELT—1886
LESLIE STEPHEN—1904
CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE SEAT OF WAR IN ITALY
HEADQUARTERS OF THE FIRST ARMY CORPS,
ON THE IDEA OF COMEDY AND OF THE USES OF THE COMIC SPIRIT1
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In those lusty ages when the Kaisers lifted high the golden goblet of Aachen, and drank, elbow upward, the green-eyed wine of old romance, there lived, a bow-shot from the bones of the Eleven Thousand Virgins and the Three Holy Kings, a prosperous Rhinelander, by name Gottlieb Groschen, or, as it was sometimes ennobled, Gottlieb von Groschen; than whom no wealthier merchant bartered for the glory of his ancient mother-city, nor more honoured burgess swallowed impartially red juice and white under the shadow of his own fig-tree.
Vine-hills, among the hottest sun-bibbers of the Rheingau, glistened in the roll of Gottlieb’s possessions; corn-acres below Cologne; basalt-quarries about Linz; mineral-springs in Nassau, a legacy of the Romans to the genius and enterprise of the first of German traders. He could have bought up every hawking crag, owner and all, from Hatto’s Tower to Rheineck. Lore-ley, combing her yellow locks against the night-cloud, beheld old Gottlieb’s rafts endlessly stealing on the moonlight through the iron pass she peoples above St. Goar. A wailful host were the wives of his raftsmen widowed there by her watery music!
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‘It is not yet finished, Gottlieb, and must not be looked at,’ she interposed. ‘I will call for wood, and see to a fire: these evenings of Spring wax cold’: and away whimpered Aunt Lisbeth.
Margarita sang:
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