Forty odd years ago I myself, on first arriving in London, lodged at the Golden Cross, because it was there that David Copperfield stopped; and I was insensately pleased the other day that there was still a hotel of that name at the old stand.
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And our world of seats oddly gained, quaintly occupied, maliciously beset, insensately envied, needs the discourse.
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George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009
Her bitter marriage, joyless in all its chapters, indefensible where the man was right as well as where insensately wrong, had been imprisonment.
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George Meredith