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