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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...luncheon hour. I had to finish an admirable essay upon Proportional Representation for the Eclectic Review, and, getting my arguments into a knot towards the last pages (which, I am sorry to say, is no uncommon experience of mine when composing admirable essays), I was chained to my desk until the afternoon was far advanced, struggling to reconcile certain irreconcileable statements to which I had committed myself, and which I was unwilling to retract. Having at length made up my mind to throw one of these overboard for the sake of harmony, I wound up my task and sallied forth to take the air. The house in which I was staying stood in the midst of one of those wild, undulating parks which are more frequent in the northern than in the southern counties, and which look like a survival of the England of three hundred years ago. It was very beautiful in its way, under the grey, autumnal sky, with shafts of pale sunlight falling upon the gnarled oaks and the withered bracken, and upon patches of gorse and heather here and there. I had walked some distance across it and was wondering whether de Vieuzac's unpleasant prophecy would ever be fulfilled--whether the land upon which I was standing would ever be parcelled out among peasant proprietors, and whether, in that case, the peasant proprietors would not find out that they had made an uncommonly bad bargain, when the thud of approaching hoofs interrupted my musings, and presently Lady Bracknell, riding between her two cavaliers, hove in sight. They were pleased to draw rein on recognising me, and Hilda said they had had a delightful ride; which assertion was received with emphatic silence by her companions. In all probability some bickering had taken place during the course of it, for the two men were looking dag...
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