Synopsis
Celt and Saxon (Dodo Press) George Meredith, OM (1828-1909) was an English novelist and poet. He read law and was articled as a solicitor, but abandoned that profession for journalism and poetry shortly after marrying Mary Ellen Nicolls, a widowed daughter of Thomas Love Peacock, in 1849. He was twenty-one years old; she was thirty. He collected his early writings, first published in periodicals, into Poems, which was publis... Full description
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I rish gentleman of the numerous clan OD onnells, and a Patrick, hardly a distinction of him until we know him, had bound himself, by purchase of a railwayticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to a notable landowner of those marches, the Squire A dister, whose family-seat was where the hills begin to lift and spy into the heart of black mountains. Examining his ticket with an apparent curiosity, the son of a greener island debated whether it would not be better for him to follow his inclinations, now that he had gone so far as to pay for the journey, and stay. But his inclinations were also subject to question, upon his considering that he had expended pounds English for the privilege of making the journey in this very train.
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