Versos English George Meredith Xiii

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She suffered for me:—women, you’ll observe, Don’t suffer for a Cause, but for a man. When I was in the dock she show’d her nerve: I saw beneath her shawl my old tea-can Trembling . . . she brought it To screw me for my work: she loath’d my plan, And therefore doubly kind I thought it.