The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith

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1859

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This novel deals with the gulf between the generations, presented the hideousness of the smug family circle, and shows gloriously young love breasting the barbed wire entanglements of old conventions. All this Meredith does brilliantly, with the penetration which only the greatest possess, and with that understanding of human nature which endures as fame.

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lready that region was a trifle prominent in the person of the wise youth, and carried, as it were, the flag of his philosophical tenets in front of him. He was charming after dinner, with men or with women: delightfully sarcastic: perhaps a little too unscrupulous in his moral tone, but that his moral reputation belied him, and it must be set down to generosity of disposition.

Such was Adrian Harley, another of Sir Austin's intellectual favourites, chosen from mankind to superintend the education of his son at Raynham. Adrian had been destined for the Church. He did not enter into Orders. He and the baronet had a conference together one day, and from that time Adrian became a fixture in the Abbey. His father died in his promising son's college term, bequeathing him nothing but his legal complexion, and Adrian became stipendiary officer in his uncle's household.

A playfellow of Richard's occasionally, and the only comrade of his age that he ever saw, was Master Ripton Thompson, the son of Sir Au

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