Title:  The Celt and Saxon, v2

Author:  George Meredith

Edition:  10

Language:  English

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CELT AND SAXON

By George Meredith

1910

BOOK 2.

XII.  Miss Mattock
XIII.  The dinner-party
XIV.  Of Rockney
XV.  The Mattock family
XVI.  Of the great Mr. Bull and the Celtic and Saxon view of him: 
          And something of Richard Rockney
XVII.  Crossing the Rubicon
XVIII.  Captain Con’s letter
X1X.  Mars convalescent

CHAPTER XII

MISS MATTOCK

Mrs. Adister O’Donnell, in common with her family, had an extreme dislike of the task of composing epistles, due to the circumstance that she was unable, unaided, to conceive an idea disconnected with the main theme of her communication, and regarded, as an art of conjuring, the use of words independent of ideas.  Her native superiority caused her to despise the art, but the necessity for employing it at intervals subjected her to fits of admiration of the conjurer, it being then evident that a serviceable piece of work, beyond her capacity to do, was lightly performed by another.