The Sentimentalists by George Meredith
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page 26 of 43 (60%)
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Other than barbarous? You are the cause.
ARDEN: No: heaven that made you beautiful's the cause. ASTRAEA: Say, earth, that gave you instincts. Bring me down To instincts! When by chance I speak awhile With our professor, you appear in haste, Full cry to sight again the missing hare. Away ideas! All that's divinest flies! I have to bear in mind how young you are. ARDEN: You have only to look up to me four years, Instead of forty! ASTRAEA: Sir? ARDEN There's my misfortune! And worse that, young, I love as a young man. Could I but quench the fire, I might conceal The youthfulness offending you so much. ASTRAEA: I wish you would. I wish it earnestly. ARDEN: Impossible. I burn. |
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