had been snatched out of this bliss
     The circle which the ladies of Brookfield were designing
     The woman follows the man, and music fits to verse,
     The sentimentalists are represented by them among the civilized
     The dismally-lighted city wore a look of Judgement terrible to see
     The sentimentalist goes on accumulating images
     The gallant cornet adored delicacy and a gilded refinement
     The philosopher (I would keep him back if I could)
     Their way was down a green lane and across long meadow-paths
     They, meantime, who had a contempt for sleep
     They had all noticed, seen, and observed
     To know that you are in England, breathing the same air with me
     True love excludes no natural duty
     Victims of the modern feminine ‘ideal’
     We have now looked into the hazy interior of their systems
     We are, in short, a civilized people
     What was this tale of Emilia, that grew more and more perplexing
     Wilfrid perceived that he had become an old man
     Women are wonderfully quick scholars under ridicule
     You have not to be told that I desire your happiness above all

RHODA FLEMING, complete

By George Meredith

CONTENTS

Book 1. 
I. The Kentish family
ii.  Queen Anne’s farm
III.  Suggests the might of the money demon
iv.  The text from Scripture
V. The sisters meet
vi.  Edward and Algernon
VII.  Great news from dahlia
viii.  Introduces Mrs. Lovell
IX.  Robert intervenes
X. Dahlia is not visible
xi.  An indicative duet in A minor key

Book 2. 
XII.  At the theatre. 
XIII.  The farmer speaks
xiv.  Between Rhoda and Robert
xi.  A visit to Wrexby hall
XII.  At fairly park
xvii.  A yeoman of the old breed
XVIII.  An assembly at the pilot inn
XIX.  Robert smitten low
XX.  Mrs. Lovell shows A tame brute