Complete Short Works of George Meredith by George Meredith
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he vociferated:
'Not here! not here; but yonder!' Guy recognized the voice of the first speaker, and cried: 'Stay! halt a second! Have you forgotten the Goshawk?' 'Never!' came the reply, 'and forget not Farina!' Spur and fleeter steeds carried them out of hearing ere Guy could throw in another syllable. Farina gazed back on him remorsefully, but the Monk now rated his assistant with indignation. 'Thou weak one! nothing less than fool! to betray thy name on such an adventure as this to soul save the saints!' Farina tossed back his locks, and held his forehead to the moon. All the Monk's ghostly wrath was foiled by the one little last sweet word of his beloved, which made music in his ears whenever annoyance sounded. 'And herein,' say the old writers, 'are lovers, who love truly, truly recompensed for their toils and pains; in that love, for which they suffer, is ever present to ward away suffering not sprung of love: but the disloyal, who serve not love faithfully, are a race given over to whatso this base world can wreak upon them, without consolation or comfort of their mistress, Love; whom sacrificing not all to, they know not to delight in.' The soul of a lover lives through every member of him in the joy of a |
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