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...Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... George Meredith BEAUCHAMP’S CAREER By George Meredith 1897 BOOK 1 CHAPTER I THE CHAMPION OF HIS COUNTRY WHEN YOUNG Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off h... ...r a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flash- ing swords at us for some critical observations of... ...ost we could muster a few old ships, a couple of experimental ves- sels of war, and twenty-five thousand soldiers indifferently weaponed. We were in f... ...is comparative subjugation (on the whole, it seems complete) of the animal world. By-and-by the struggle is transferred to higher ground, and we begin... ...ulls of our 108 Beauchamp’s Career national enemy on the wide and fertile campaigns of France.’ This was pageantry. There was more of it. Then the se... ...d?’ ‘T rap-bat and ball, cricket, dancing, military bands, pup- pet-shows, theatres, merry-go-rounds, bosky dells—anything to make them happy,’ said P... ... shots at the detested one, and certain boys were maltreated for an ardour involving clumsiness. A 234 Beauchamp’s Career young genius of this horde ...

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...Contents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ..........................................

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... Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ublication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...orge Meredith LORD ORMONT AND HIS AMINTA By George Meredith BOOK 1 CHAPTER I LOVE AT A SCHOOL A PROCESSION of schoolboys having to meet a procession o... ...e was a brave girl, ready to go all over the 6 Lord Ormont and His Aminta world with him; had taken to him as he to her, shot for shot. Her taking to... ...der arms, with a passion to serve his country and sustain the glory of our military an- nals. He revived respect for the noble class in the hearts of ... ...have liked to see Murat matched against the sabre of a wily Rajpoot! As to campaigns and strategy, Lord Ormont’s head was a map. What of Murat and Lor... ...mselves as imitative servants of their god Mars, on the fields of love and war, stood necessarily prepared to vindicate their conduct as the field of ... ...est:—The ‘Beautiful Lady Doubtful’ of a report that had scorched her cars. Theatres, rides, pleasure-drives, even such houses as she saw standing open... ...e, without complicity on his part, without his knowl- edge, yet absolutely involving his fate, the battle had gone against him in Aminta’s breast. Lik...