...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- troni... ...n equal opportunity university. 3 George Meredith THE ADVENTURES OF HARRY RICHMOND By George Meredith BOOK 1 CHAPTER I I AM A SUBJECT OF CONTENTION O... ...he household were, his daugh- ter Dorothy Beltham; a married daughter Mrs. Richmond; Benjamin Sewis, an old half-caste butler; various domestic servan... ...utler; various domestic servants; and a little boy, christened Harry Lepel Richmond, the squire’s grandson. Riversley Grange lay in a rich watered hol... ...a Hampshire gipsy tribe, and had been on a visit to a relative down in the East coun- ties, who died on the road, leaving her to be brought home by th... ...e will. My farm lies three miles away. You look at a crow flying due South-east five minutes from Riversley, and he’s over Throckham farm, and there I... ...ad with myself to turn my little horse’s head from hills and valleys lying East; they seemed to have the secret of my father. Blank enough they looked... ...rd banks of red-reflecting cloud, and a smell of sea air. ‘Why, that’s the East there!’ cried T emple. We faced about to the sun, and behold, he was a...

...the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the household were, his daughter 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....

...hile and both conjointly bend Your sharpest deeds of malice on this town: By east and west let France and England mount Their battering cannon charged... ...will heal up all; For we’ll create young Arthur Duke of Bretagne And Earl of Richmond; and this rich fair town We make him lord of. Call the Lady Cons... ... He is forsworn, if e’er those eyes of yours Behold another day break in the east: But even this night, whose black contagious breath Already smokes a...

... beans and black coffee, and nothing of ornament but war pictures from the Eastern illustrated pa pers tacked to the log walls. That was all hard, ch... ...t: George, the favorite body servant of the lamented Wash ington, died in Richmond, Va., last T uesday, at the ripe age of 95 years. His intellect wa... ... I wish it would stay with the other animals … . Cloudy today, wind in the east; think we shall have rain … . we? Where did I get that word—the new c...