


Produced by David Widger





CELT AND SAXON


By George Meredith


1910.




CONTENTS

  BOOK 1.
  I.        WHEREIN AN EXCURSION IS MADE IN A CELTIC MIND
  II.       MR. ADISTER
  III.      CAROLINE
  IV.       THE PRINCESS
  V.        AT THE PIANOS CHIEFLY WITHOUT MUSIC
  VI.       A CONSULTATION: WITH OPINIONS UPON WELSH WOMEN AND THE CAMBRIAN
            RACE
  VII.      THE MINIATURE
  VIII.     CAPTAIN CON AND MRS. ADISTER O'DONNELL
  IX.       THE CAPTAIN'S CABIN
  X.        THE BROTHERS
  XI.       INTRODUCING A NEW CHARACTER

  BOOK 2.
  XII.      MISS MATTOCK
  XIII.     THE DINNER-PARTY
  XIV.      OF ROCKNEY
  XV.       THE MATTOCK FAMILY
  XVI.      OF THE GREAT MR. BULL AND THE CELTIC AND SAXON VIEW OF HIM:
            AND SOMETHING OF RICHARD ROCKNEY
  XVII.     CROSSING THE RUBICON
  XVIII.    CAPTAIN CON'S LETTER
  XIX.      MARS CONVALESCENT




CHAPTER I. WHEREIN AN EXCURSION IS MADE IN A CELTIC MIND

A young Irish gentleman of the numerous clan O'Donnells, and a Patrick,
hardly a distinction of him until we know him, had bound himself, by
purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North
Wales, on a visit to a notable landowner of those marches, the Squire
Adister, whose family-seat was where the hills begin to lift and spy
into the heart of black mountains