Meredith, George, 1828-1909 / 2008-06-06 00:00:00

EBOOK SHORT WORKS OF MEREDITH ***


Produced by David Widger


THE ENTIRE SHORT WORKS OF GEORGE MEREDITH

CONTENTS:
Farina
Case of General Ople
The Tale of Chloe
The House on the Beach
The Gentleman of Fifty
The Sentimentalists
Miscellaneous Prose


FARINA
By George Meredith

THE WHITE ROSE CLUB
In those lusty ages when the Kaisers lifted high the golden goblet of
Aachen, and drank, elbow upward, the green-eyed wine of old romance,
there lived, a bow-shot from the bones of the Eleven Thousand Virgins and
the Three Holy Kings, a prosperous Rhinelander, by name Gottlieb
Groschen, or, as it was sometimes ennobled, Gottlieb von Groschen; than
whom no wealthier merchant bartered for the glory of his ancient
mother-city, nor more honoured burgess swallowed impartially red juice
and white under the shadow of his own fig-tree.
Vine-hills, among the hottest sun-bibbers of the Rheingau, glistened in
the roll of Gottlieb's possessions; corn-acres below Cologne;
basalt-quarries about Linz; mineral-springs in Nassau, a legacy of the
Romans to the genius and enterprise of the first of German traders.
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