ISBN: 9781153741071

Excerpt: ...At the gate of his cottage garden Weyburn beheld a short unfamiliar figure of a man with dimly remembered features. Little Collett he still was in height. The schoolmates had … Mehr…

Excerpt: ...At the gate of his cottage garden Weyburn beheld a short unfamiliar figure of a man with dimly remembered features. Little Collett he still was in height. The schoolmates had not met since the old days of Cuper''s. Little Collett delivered a message of invitation from Selina, begging Mr. Weyburn to accompany her brother on the coach to Harwich next day, and spend two or three days by the sea. But Weyburn''s mind had been set in the opposite direction-up Thames instead of down. He was about to refuse, but he checked his voice and hummed. Words of Selina''s letter jumped in italics. He perceived Lady Ormont''s hand. For one thing, would she be at Great Marlow alone? And he knew that hand -how deftly it moved and moved others. Selina Collett would not have invited him with underlinings merely to see a shoreside house and garden. Her silence regarding a particular name showed her to be under injunction, one might guess. At worst, it would be the loss of a couple of days; worth the venture. They agreed to journey by coach next day. Facing eastward in the morning, on a seat behind the coachman, Weyburn had a seafaring man beside him, bound for the good port of Harwich, where his family lived, and thence by his own boat to Flushing. Weyburn set him talking of himself, as the best way of making him happy; for it is the theme which pricks to speech, and so liberates an uncomfortably locked-up stranger; who, if sympathetic to human proximity, is thankful. They exchanged names, delighted to find they were both Matthews; whereupon Matthew of the sea demanded the paw of Matthew of the land, and there was a squeeze. The same with little Collett, after hearing of him as the old schoolmate of the established new friend. Then there was talk. Little Collett named Felixstowe as the village of his mother''s house and garden sloping to the sands. ''That ''s it-you have it,'' said the salted Matthew: ''peace is in that spot, and there I ''ve sworn to pitch my tent when I ''m... George Meredith, Books, Fiction and Literature, Lord Ormont And His Aminta - Volume 5 Books>Fiction and Literature, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781153741071

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ISBN: 9781153741071

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