' He heard the wild. scudding voice imperfectly: it reminded him of a string of winter geese, changing waters.... and allowed him a moment's incredulity as to its being a human voice.'
(Beauchamp's Career by GEORGE MEREDITH)
Gillian Beer. Fellow of Girton College. Cambridge, argues that, because fever was a common experience in the 19th century, Victorian writers used it as a device to by-pass the inhibitions of their readers. Reader JOHN HOLMSTROM