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... Dorothy Beltham; a married daughter Mrs. Richmond; Benjamin Sewis, an old half-caste butler; various domestic servants; and a little boy, christened Harry Lepel Richmond....

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...ith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec-... ...y is an equal opportunity university. 3 George Meredith THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY RICHMOND By George Meredith BOOK 1 CHAPTER I I AM A SUBJECT OF CONTEN... ...half-caste butler; various domestic servants; and a little boy, christened Harry Lepel Richmond, the squire’s grandson. Riversley Grange lay in a rich... ...while Sewis stood by his master’s bedside. The squire 4 The Adventures of Harry Richmond was a hunter, of the old sort: a hard rider, deep drinker, a... ...he lady over to pounce 492 The Adventures of Harry Richmond on her like a fowler, you threatened her father with a scan- dal, if he thought proper to...

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...to uncalculating anger. “I want to tell you, I must hand over that rent of Fowler’s to the Squire, or else tell him I gave it you; for he’s threatenin... ..., just now, before he went out, he should send word to Cox to distrain, if Fowler didn’t come and pay up his arrears this week. The Squire’s short o’ ... ...indow-seat again with an air of great unconcern. “It’s you have got to pay Fowler’s money; it’s none of my business. Y ou received the money from him ... ... old Squire Cass say so many and many a time. But ride he would, as if Old Harry had been a-driving him; and 49 George Eliot he’d a son, a lad o’ six... ...ever sin’ I were a boy; that’s to say, some said as it was the holiday Old Harry gev him from roasting, like. That’s what my father told me, and he wa... ...e might tell his father that he had himself spent the money paid to him by Fowler; and as he had never been guilty of such an offence before, the affa... ... get my arrears, not if I sold all the fellows up. And there’s that damned Fowler, I won’t put up with him any longer; I’ve told Winthrop to go to Cox... ...ay say. But there’s no knowing: it isn’t every queer- looksed thing as Old Harry’s had the making of—I mean, speaking o’ toads and such; for they’re o... ...n, and they took the water just as well. And that’s reasonable; for if Old Harry’s a mind to do a bit o’ kindness for a holiday, like, who’s got anyth...

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...ing away out of the room; ‘and if you want a third, there is none but ould Harry, as I know of, that can match ye for a brent broo!’ As the girl mutte... ...h the devices of the wicked, and who can redeem us even as a bird from the fowler’s net.’ This was all that Fairford could learn from Miss Geddes; but... ...ane.’ ‘In troth, and ye may say sae, madam,’ answered the laird; ‘for poor Harry Redgauntlet, that suffered at Carlisle, was hand and glove with me; a... ...r fear of going astray, linked into a handcuff, as they call it, with poor Harry Redgauntlet’s fastened into the other; and there we were, trudging al... ...low; for I had the luck to have neither wife nor child to think about, and Harry Redgauntlet had both one and t’other.—Y ou have seen Harry, 269 Sir ... ...f a Scottishman than Edward.’ ‘Folk lee’ d, then,’ said Summertrees; ‘poor Harry was none of your bold-speaking, ranting reivers, that talk about what...

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...of sound liquor, a ready wit, and a pretty daughter. Since the days of old Harry Baillie of the T abard in Southwark, no one had excelled Giles Goslin... ...s of our worthy host.” “That he hath,” answered Giles Gosling, “in as fair Harry- nobles as ever were melted into sack by a good fellow. So, luck to y... ...ile the nightingale is singing?” “Thrush or nightingale, all is one to the fowler; and, Mas- ter Varney , you can sound the quail-pipe most daintily t... ...d-by. But never will a lord come to Woodstock so welcome as bluff old King Harry! He would horsewhip a fellow one day with his own royal hand, and the... ... of which, but at some distance, the young cavalier still lingered, as the fowler watches the net which he has set. The Queen approached the window, o... ... mute companion with a thousand anecdotes of revels, from the days of King Harry downwards, with the reception given them by the great folk, and all t... ...by!” said Blount; “but, good Master Eagle, beware the cage, and beware the fowler. Many birds have flown as high that I have seen stuffed with straw a...

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...Lowther was once a horse stealer, and that he escaped lagging by reason of Harry Brougham’s pity for his tender years and hopeful looks. Not less was ... ...h period the amphitheatre gave bounties, as it were, to the hunter and the fowler of every climate, and that, by means of a stimulus so constantly app...

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...self from time to time. “Gone, by the Lord. Gone, by the Lord. By the Lord Harry, she’s cleared out.” As yet his head was empty of all thought. He cou... ...e alone was responsible for the night’s work, had been wired on ahead from Fowler, the train conductor throwing the despatch to the station agent from... ...to reduce that. You didn’t do it and you don’t intend to, and, by the Lord Harry, I want to know why.” “You’ll know, sir—” began Lyman. “Well, I’ll te...

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...ried to be relieved by being told that he was going out with Dick Wolfe or Harry Osborn, but it was not quite satisfactory, and she began to look fagg... ...again, Lucy, you need not flatter yourself,’ said the amiable Sarah Anne. ‘Harry Wolfe writes that he was flirting with a beautiful young lady who cam... ... grasp tightening on him, he had fluttered like a bird in the snare of the fowler, physically affrighted at the death-pang, shrink- ing from the lonel...

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...whom no sojourner, no citizen May harbor or address, whom all are bound To harry from their homes. And this same curse Was laid on me, and laid by non... ...gods at home. Lead on, I say, the captor s caught, and fate Hath ta en the fowler in the toils he spread; So soon are lost gains gotten by deceit. And...

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... since been on very friendly terms, and who had called each other Dick and Harry when the squabble first began, were now talking of ‘punching’ each ot... ...tsman. But I don’t think a county would get on very well which ap- pointed Fowler as Master of Hounds. He is an honest man, and therefore would be bet... ...ere no fox at Grantingham Wood, but none even at the Spinnies. And at two, Fowler, with an anxious face, held a consultation with his more anxious mas... ...en the proper draw. ‘I sup- pose we must try it, ’ said Lord Chiltern. Old Fowler looked very sour. ‘You might as well look for a fox under my wife’s ... ... ’ ‘I daresay we should find one there,’ said one of the wags of the hunt. Fowler shook his head, feeling that this was no time for joking. ‘It ought ... ...Duke’s son, ’ said Chiltern laughing. ‘I beg his Lordship’s pardon, ’ said Fowler, taking off his 457 Anthony Trollope cap. ‘We shall have a good tim...

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..., and stopped to speak to him. Or it might have been that Crosbie’s friend Fowler Pratt stopped with this special object—for Siph Dunn was an in- tima... ...stopped with this special object—for Siph Dunn was an in- timate friend of Fowler Pratt’s. Crosbie and Siph were also acquainted, but in those days Cr... ... having a little special conversation about money with his very old friend Fowler Pratt. 523 Anthony Trollope ‘What, Siph, is this you? You’re always... ...y Trollope ‘What, Siph, is this you? You’re always on horseback now,’ said Fowler Pratt. ‘Well, yes; I have gone in a good deal for cavalry work this ... ... and from the constrained manner in which she gazed before her. His friend Fowler Pratt had never seen Miss Dale, though he knew very much of her hist... ...f-finished manu- script—as was his wont on every Saturday morning. ‘Hallo, Harry,’ he said. ‘I didn’t expect you in the least.’ It was barely an hour ...

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...asts of her valorous spouse. “Behold the king of simple life and plain, Harry of England, sitting there alone: He through his branches better iss... ...vain. The new and inexperienc’d bird awaits, Twice it may be, or thrice, the fowler’s aim; But in the sight of one, whose plumes are full, In vain the... ...fore considers Peter as the most illustrious of the three monarchs. v. 129. Harry of England.] Henry III. v. 130. Better issue.] Edward l. of whose ...

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...had to shake himself. She seemed really a soaring bird brought down by the fowler. Lord Fleetwood’s manner of abandoning her was the mystery. Gower st... ...imate mate. It will treat us at times as the faithless wife, who becomes a harrying beast, behaves to her lord. He had no sleep. Having put out his ca... ...wever, there was to be an end of it soon—a change; change as remarkable as Harry Monmouth’s at the touching of his crown. Though in these days, in our... ...: she knew him. So thereupon, with the whirr of a covey on wing before the fowler, our crested three of immemorial antiquity and a presumptive immorta...

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...er ears, and by it she had been snared; and he, disdaining to practise the fowler’s arts or to cast a thought on small fowls, appeared to her to have ... ... did ill. But, oh, how I love her for it! His name was 97 George Meredith Harry Oxford. Papa would call him her Perseus. She must have felt that ther... ... she suffered. She had only to act, to plunge. First she fixed her mind on Harry Oxford. To be able to speak his name and see him awaiting her, must h... ...igned herself over. Oh, brave girl! what do you think of me? But I have no Harry Whitford, I am alone. Let anything be said against women; we must be ... ... their coach and four, and she is Lady Kitty Caper for a month, and he Sir Harry Highflyer. See the honeymoon spinning! The marvel to me is that none ... ... fourth, to my knowledge, one being public …” “You knew Miss Durham?” “And Harry Oxford too. And they’re a pair as happy as blackbirds in a cherry-tre...

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...ch he was kindly communicating to me; and he described this early friend, ‘Harry Hervey,’ thus: ‘He was a vicious man, but very kind to me. If you cal... ... what we shall do. Be a good boy. ‘My compliments to Mrs. Clapp and to Mr. Fowler. I am, your’s affectionately, SAM. JOHNSON.’ ‘May 28, 1768.’ Soon af... ...tator. Garrick used to tell, that Johnson said of an actor, who played Sir Harry Wildair at Lichfield, ‘There is a courtly vivacity about the fellow;’... ...this jaunt, I have lost an old friend and a young one;—Dr. James, and poor Harry.’ (Meaning Mr. Thrale’s son.) I enjoyed the luxury of our approach to...