Celt and Saxon. Volume 1

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George Meredith. Celt and Saxon. Volume 1

CHAPTER I. WHEREIN AN EXCURSION IS MADE IN A CELTIC MIND

CHAPTER II. MR. ADISTER

CHAPTER III. CAROLINE

CHAPTER IV. THE PRINCESS

CHAPTER V. AT THE PIANO, CHIEFLY WITHOUT MUSIC

CHAPTER VI. A CONSULTATION: WITH OPINIONS UPON WELSHWOMEN AND THE CAMBRIAN RACE

CHAPTER VII. THE MINIATURE

CHAPTER VIII. CAPTAIN CON AND MRS. ADISTER O'DONNELL

CHAPTER IX. THE CAPTAIN'S CABIN

CHAPTER X. THE BROTHERS

CHAPTER XI. INTRODUCING A NEW CHARACTER

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Mr. Patrick O'Donnell drove up to the gates of Earlsfont notwithstanding these emotions, upon which light matter it is the habit of men of his blood too much to brood; though it is for our better future to have a capacity for them, and the insensible race is the oxenish.

But if he did so when alone, the second man residing in the Celt put that fellow by and at once assumed the social character on his being requested to follow his card into Mr. Adister's library. He took his impression of the hall that had heard her voice, the stairs she had descended, the door she had passed through, and the globes she had perchance laid hand on, and the old mappemonde, and the severely-shining orderly regiment of books breathing of her whether she had opened them or not, as he bowed to his host, and in reply to, 'So, sir! I am glad to see you,' said swimmingly that Earlsfont was the first house he had visited in this country: and the scenery reminded him of his part of Ireland: and on landing at Holyhead he had gone off straight to the metropolis by appointment to meet his brother Philip, just returned from Canada a full captain, who heartily despatched his compliments and respects, and hoped to hear of perfect health in this quarter of the world. And Captain Con the same, and he was very flourishing.

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'I was educated in Paris.'

'How? Ah!' Mr. Adister corrected himself in the higher notes of recollection. 'I think I have heard something of a Jesuit seminary.'

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