The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
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George Meredith. The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
CHAPTER I. A MINOR INCIDENT SHOWING AN HEREDITARY APTITUDE IN THE USE OF THE KNIFE
CHAPTER II. THE YOUNG SIR WILLOUGHBY
CHAPTER III. CONSTANTIA DURHAM
CHAPTER IV. LAETITIA DALE
CHAPTER V. CLARA MIDDLETON
CHAPTER VI. HIS COURTSHIP
CHAPTER VII. THE BETROTHED
CHAPTER VIII. A RUN WITH THE TRUANT; A WALK WITH THE MASTER
CHAPTER IX. CLARA AND LAETITIA MEET: THEY ARE COMPARED
CHAPTER X. IN WHICH SIR WILLOUGHBY CHANCES TO SUPPLY THE TITLE FOR HIMSELF
CHAPTER XI. THE DOUBLE-BLOSSOM WILD CHERRY-TREE
CHAPTER XII. MISS MIDDLETON AND MR. VERNON WHITFORD
CHAPTER XIII. THE FIRST EFFORT AFTER FREEDOM
CHAPTER XIV. SIR WILLOUGHBY AND LAETITIA
CHAPTER XV. THE PETITION FOR A RELEASE
CHAPTER XVI. CLARA AND LAETITIA
CHAPTER XVII. THE PORCELAIN VASE
CHAPTER XVIII. COLONEL DE CRAYE
CHAPTER XIX. COLONEL DE CRAYE AND CLARA MIDDLETON
CHAPTER XX. AN AGED AND A GREAT WINE
CHAPTER XXI. CLARA'S MEDITATIONS
CHAPTER XXII. THE RIDE
CHAPTER XXIII. TREATS OF THE UNION OF TEMPER AND POLICY
CHAPTER XXIV. CONTAINS AN INSTANCE OF THE GENEROSITY OF WILLOUGHBY
CHAPTER XXV. THE FLIGHT IN WILD WEATHER
CHAPTER XXVI. VERNON IN PURSUIT
CHAPTER XXVII. AT THE RAILWAY STATION
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE RETURN
CHAPTER XXIX. IN WHICH THE SENSITIVENESS OF SIR WILLOUGHBY IS EXPLAINED: AND HE RECEIVES MUCH INSTRUCTION
CHAPTER XXX. TREATING OF THE DINNER-PARTY AT MRS. MOUNTSTUART JENKINSON'S
CHAPTER XXXI. SIR WILLOUGHBY ATTEMPTS AND ACHIEVES PATHOS
CHAPTER XXXII. LAETITIA DALE DISCOVERS A SPIRITUAL CHANGE AND DR MIDDLETON A PHYSICAL
CHAPTER XXXIII. IN WHICH THE COMIC MUSE HAS AN EYE ON TWO GOOD SOULS
CHAPTER XXXIV. MRS. MOUNTSTUART AND SIR WILLOUGHBY
CHAPTER XXXV. MISS MIDDLETON AND MRS. MOUNTSTUART
CHAPTER XXXVI. ANIMATED CONVERSATION AT A LUNCHEON-TABLE
CHAPTER XXXVII. CONTAINS CLEVER FENCING AND INTIMATIONS OF THE NEED FOR IT
CHAPTER XXXVIII. IN WHICH WE TAKE A STEP TO THE CENTRE OF EGOISM
CHAPTER XXXIX. IN THE HEART OF THE EGOIST
CHAPTER XL. MIDNIGHT: SIR WILLOUGHBY AND LAETITIA: WITH YOUNG CROSSJAY UNDER A COVERLET
CHAPTER XLI. THE REV. DR. MIDDLETON, CLARA, AND SIR WILLOUGHBY
CHAPTER XLII. SHOWS THE DIVINING ARTS OF A PERCEPTIVE MIND
CHAPTER XLIII. IN WHICH SIR WILLOUGHBY IS LED TO THINK THAT THE ELEMENTS HAVE CONSPIRED AGAINST HIM
CHAPTER XLIV. DR MIDDLETON: THE LADIES ELEANOR AND ISABEL: AND MR. DALE
CHAPTER XLV. THE PATTERNE LADIES: MR. DALE: LADY BUSSHE AND LADY CULMER: WITH MRS. MOUNTSTUART JENKINSON
CHAPTER XLVI. THE SCENE OF SIR WILLOUGHBY'S GENERALSHIP
CHAPTER XLVII. SIR WILLOUGHBY AND HIS FRIEND HORACE DE CRAYE
CHAPTER XLVIII. THE LOVERS
CHAPTER XLIX. LAETITIA AND SIR WILLOUGHBY
CHAPTER L. UPON WHICH THE CURTAIN FALLS
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These little scoundrel imps, who have attained to some respectability as the dogs and pets of the Comic Spirit, had been curiously attentive three years earlier, long before the public announcement of his engagement to the beautiful Miss Durham, on the day of Sir Willoughby's majority, when Mrs. Mountstuart Jenkinson said her word of him. Mrs. Mountstuart was a lady certain to say the remembered, if not the right, thing. Again and again was it confirmed on days of high celebration, days of birth or bridal, how sure she was to hit the mark that rang the bell; and away her word went over the county: and had she been an uncharitable woman she could have ruled the county with an iron rod of caricature, so sharp was her touch. A grain of malice would have sent county faces and characters awry into the currency. She was wealthy and kindly, and resembled our mother Nature in her reasonable antipathies to one or two things which none can defend, and her decided preference of persons that shone in the sun. Her word sprang out of her. She looked at you, and forth it came: and it stuck to you, as nothing laboured or literary could have adhered. Her saying of Laetitia Dale: "Here she comes with a romantic tale on her eyelashes," was a portrait of Laetitia. And that of Vernon Whitford: "He is a Phoebus Apollo turned fasting friar," painted the sunken brilliancy of the lean long-walker and scholar at a stroke.
Of the young Sir Willoughby, her word was brief; and there was the merit of it on a day when he was hearing from sunrise to the setting of the moon salutes in his honour, songs of praise and Ciceronian eulogy. Rich, handsome, courteous, generous, lord of the Hall, the feast and the dance, he excited his guests of both sexes to a holiday of flattery. And, says Mrs. Mountstuart, while grand phrases were mouthing round about him, "You see he has a leg."
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"You wish to be near me, papa?"
"Proximate—at a remove: communicable."
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