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Diana of the Crossways

By Meredith, George

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Book Id: WPLBN0000678504
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title: Diana of the Crossways  
Author: Meredith, George
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Language: English
Subject: Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections: Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Meredith, G. (n.d.). Diana of the Crossways. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/


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Excerpt: Chapter 1. Of Diaries and Diarists Touching The Heroine. Among the diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little harm to womankind as the stone of an urchin cast upon the bosom?

 
 



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