Sandra Belloni

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Title: Sandra Belloni, Complete
Author: George Meredith
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SANDRA BELLONI
By George Meredith

CONTENTS
BOOK 1 I. THE POLES PRELUDE II. THE EXPEDITION BY
MOONLIGHT III. WILFRID'S DIPLOMACY IV. EMILIA'S FIRST
TRIAL IN PUBLIC V. EMILIA PLAYS ON THE CORNET VI.
EMILIA SUPPLIES THE KEY TO HERSELF AND CONTINUES
HER PERFORMANCE ON THE CORNET VII. THREATS OF A
CRISIS IN THE GOVERNMENT OF BROOKFIELD: AND OF THE
VIRTUE RESIDENT IN A TAIL-COAT VIII. IN WHICH A BIG
DRUM SPEEDS THE MARCH OF EMILIA'S HISTORY IX. THE
RIVAL CLUBS X. THE LADIES OF BROOKFIELD AT SCHOOL
BOOK 2 XI. IN WHICH WE SEE THE MAGNANIMITY THAT IS
IN BEER. XII. SHOWING HOW SENTIMENT AND PASSION
TAKE THE DISEASE OF LOVE XIII. CONTAINS A SHORT
DISCOURSE ON PUPPETS XIV. THE BESWORTH QUESTION
XV. WILFRID'S EXHIBITION OF TREACHERY XVI. HOW THE
LADIES OF BROOKFIELD CAME TO THEIR RESOLVE XVII. IN
THE WOODS
BOOK 3 XVIII. RETURN OF THE SENTIMENTALIST INTO
BONDAGE XIX. LIFE AT BROOKFIELD. XX. BY WILMING
WEIR XXI. RETURN OF MR. PERICLES XXII. THE PITFALL OF
SENTIMENT XXIII. WILFRID DIPLOMATIZES XXIV. EMILIA
MAKES A MOVE XXV. A FARCE WITHIN A FARCE
BOOK 4 XXVI. SUGGESTS THAT THE COMIC MASK HAS
SOME KINSHIP WITH A SKULL XXVII. SMALL LIFE AT
BROOKFIELD XXVIII. GEORGIANA FORD XXIX. FIRST
SCOURGING OF THE FINE SHADES XXX. OF THE
DOUBLE-MAN IN US, AND THE GREAT FIGHT WHEN THESE
ARE FULL-GROWN XXXI. BESWORTH LAWN XXXII. THE
SUPPER XXXIII. DEFEAT AND FLIGHT OF MRS. CHUMP
BOOK 5 XXXIV. INDICATES THE DEGRADATION OF
BROOKFIELD, TOGETHER WITH CERTAIN PROCEEDINGS OF
THE YACHT XXXV. MRS. CHUMP'S EPISTLE XXXVI.
ANOTHER PITFALL OF SENTIMENT XXXVII. EMILIA'S

FLIGHT. XXXVIII. SHE CLINGS TO HER VOICE XXXIX. HER
VOICE FAILS
BOOK 6 XL. SHE TASTES DESPAIR XLI. SHE IS FOUND XLII.
DEFECTION OF MR. PERICLES FROM THE BROOKFIELD
CIRCLE XLIII. IN WHICH WE SEE WILFRID KINDLING XLIV.
ON THE HIPPOGRIFF IN AIR: IN WHICH THE PHILOSOPHER
HAS A SHORT SPELL. XLV. ON THE HIPPOGRIFF ON EARTH.
XLVI. RAPE OF THE BLACK-BRIONY WREATH XLVII. THE
CALL TO ACTION XLVIII. CONTAINS A FURTHER VIEW OF
SENTIMENT XLIX. BETWEEN EMILIA AND GEORGIANA
BOOK 7 L. EMILIA BEGINS TO FEEL MERTHYR'S POWER LI. A
CHAPTER INTERRUPTED BY THE PHILOSOPHER LII. A FRESH
DUETT BETWEEN WILFRID AND EMILIA LIII. ALDERMAN'S
BOUQUET LIIV. THE EXPLOSION AT BROOKFIELD LV. THE
TRAGEDY OF SENTIMENT LVI. AN ADVANCE AND A CHECK.
LVII. CONTAINS A FURTHER ANATOMY OF WILFRID LVIII.
FROST ON THE MAY NIGHT. LVIX. EMILIA'S GOOD-BYE

SANDRA BELLONI
[ORIGINALLY EMILIA IN ENGLAND]
CHAPTER I
We are to make acquaintance with some serious damsels, as this
English generation knows them, and at a season verging upon May.
The ladies of Brookfield, Arabella, Cornelia, and Adela Pole, daughters
of a flourishing City-of-London merchant, had been told of a singular
thing: that in the neighbouring fir-wood a voice was to be heard by
night, so wonderfully sweet and richly toned, that it required their
strong sense to correct strange imaginings concerning it. Adela was
herself the chief witness to its unearthly sweetness, and her testimony
was confirmed by Edward Buxley, whose ear had likewise taken in the
notes, though not on the same night, as the pair publicly proved by

dates. Both declared that the voice belonged to an opera-singer or a
spirit. The ladies of Brookfield, declining the alternative, perceived that
this was a surprise furnished for their amusement by the latest celebrity
of their circle, Mr. Pericles, their father's business ally and
fellow-speculator; Mr. Pericles, the Greek, the man who held millions
of money as dust compared to a human voice. Fortified by this
exquisite supposition, their strong sense at once dismissed with scorn
the idea of anything unearthly, however divine, being heard at night, in
the nineteenth century, within sixteen miles of London City. They
agreed that Mr. Pericles had hired some charming cantatrice to draw
them into the woods and delightfully bewilder them. It was to be
expected of his princely nature, they said. The Tinleys, of Bloxholme,
worshipped him for his wealth; the ladies of Brookfield assured their
friends that the fact of his being a money-maker was redeemed in their
sight by his devotion to music. Music was now the Art in the ascendant
at Brookfield. The ladies (for it