One of Our Conquerors - World eBook Library

George Meredith
Mr. Fenellan was unused to the copious outpouring of Victor
Radnor’s confidences upon his domestic affairs; and the
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unwonted excitement of Victor’s manner of speech would THE LONDON WALK WESTWARD
have perplexed him, had there not been such a fiddling of
the waltz inside him.
IN THAT NATIONALLY interesting Poem, or Dramatic Satire,
Payment for the turtle and the bottles of Old Veuve was once famous, The Rajah in London (London, Limbo and
performed apart with Benjamin, while Simeon Fenellan Sons, 1889), now obliterated under the long wash of Pressmatter,
the reflection—not unknown to philosophical ob-
strolled out of the house, questioning a tumbled mind as to
what description of suitable entertainment, which would be servers, and natural perhaps in the mind of an Oriental
dancing and flirting and fal-lallery in the season of youth, Prince—produced by his observation of the march of London
citizens Eastward at morn, Westward at eve, attributes
London City could provide near meridian hours for a man
of middle age carrying his bottle of champagne, like a guest their practice to a survival of the Zoroastrian form of worship.
His Minister, favourable to the people or for the sake
of an old-fashioned wedding-breakfast. For although he could
stand his wine as well as his friend, his friend’s potent capacity
martially after the feast to buckle to business at a sign of show more than the fidelity of the sunflower to her God.
of fostering an idea in his Master’s head, remarks, that they
the clock, was beyond him. It pointed to one of the embodied
elements, hot from Nature’s workshop. It told of the en-
princely fashion, accusing him of obscureness of speech:—
The Rajah, it would appear, frowns interrogatively, in the
durance of powers, that partly explained the successful, astonishing
career of his friend among a people making urnally
instant to spurn at the whip of that which they do not
princes and the louder members of the grey public are fratergent,
if unequal, demands perpetually upon stomach and immediately comprehend. It is explained by the Minister:
head.
not even the flower, he says, would hold constant, as they, to
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