The scene of the prank was not in itself so bad as the stuff which a cunning anecdotist could make out of it.
"The Adventures of Harry Richmond, Complete"
George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009
It was for this young Dudley, who resembled a London of the sparrowy roadways and wearisome pavements and blocks of fortress mansions, by chance a water-cart spirting a stale water: or a London of the farewell dinner-parties, where London's professed anecdotist lays the dust with his ten times told: Why was not Nataly relieved of her dreary round of the purchases of furniture!
"One of Our Conquerors, Complete"
George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009
He is shepherd, doctor, nurse, comforter, anecdotist and fun-maker to his poor flock; and you wonder they see the burning gateway of their heaven in him?
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith