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Certainly it is the best philosophy youth can pretend to practise; and Lord Ormont kept him from it! Worse than that, the slips and sheets of paper in the dispatch-box were not an exercise of the mind even; there was nothing to grapple with no diversion; criticism passed by them indulgently, if not benevolently.
We acknowledge, however, that a mere sentiment, entertained possibly by us alone, should not be permitted to condemn him unheard. Lady Ormont was not seen again. After luncheon at a solitary table, the secretary worked till winter's lamps were lit; and then shone freedom, with assurance to him that he would escape from the miry mental ditch he had been floundering in since Aminta revealed herself.
Her keen apprehension of the price payable for his benevolent intentions caught scent of them in the air. Those Ormont jewels shone as emblems of a detested subjection, the penalty for being the beautiful woman rageing men proclaimed. Was there no scheme of some other sort, and far less agreeable, to make amends for Steignton? She was shrewd at divination; she guessed her lord's design.
Pagnell assumed an air of studious interest; she struck in to give her niece a lead, that Lord Ormont might know his countess capable of joining the driest of subjects occupying exalted minds. Aminta did not follow her; and she was extricated gallantly by the gentlemen in turn. The secretary behaved with a pretty civility.
Don't forget, Lady Ormont, that the brother did his part; he had more knowledge of the danger than she. 'You will undertake to convey our subscriptions? Lord Ormont spoke of the little ones and the schoolboys yesterday. 'I'll be down again among them next Sunday, Lady Ormont. On the Monday I go to Olmer. 'The girls of High Brent subscribe? There was a ripple under Weyburn's gravity. 'Messrs.
But she forbore from asking how it was that the Countess of Ormont had come to the place. At a symptom of her intention to indulge in disgust; Aminta brought up Mr. Morsfield by name; whereupon Mrs. Pagnell showed she had reflected on her conduct in relation to the gentleman, and with the fear of the earl if she were questioned.
Pagnell for a boulder in the stream. Uninformed by malice, she led up to Lord Adderwood's name, and perhaps more designedly spoke of Mr. Morsfield, on whom her profound reading into the female heart of the class above her caused her to harp, as 'a real Antinous, that the ladies might discuss him and Lord Ormont wax meditative. Mrs.
Thus it happened, that seven years after his bereavement, Lord Ormont and Philippa and Bobby were on the famous Bernese Terrace, grandest of terrestrial theatres where soul of man has fronting him earth's utmost majesty. Sublime: but five minutes of it fetched sounds as of a plug in an empty phial from Bobby's bosom, and his heels became electrical.
She worships, and that is your way of pulling gods to the ground." "Does she understand good English?" "Speaks it." "Can she write?" "I have never had a letter from her." "You tell me Morsfield admires the woman would marry her to-morrow, if he could get her." "He would go through the ceremony Ormont has performed, I do not doubt." "I don't doubt all of you are ready. She doesn't encourage one?"
Why chastize that man Morsfield at all? Calling him out would give a further dip to the name of Ormont. A pretty idea, to be punishing a roan for what you thank him for! He did a service; and if he's as mad about her as he boasts, he can take her and marry her now Rowsley 's free of her. Morsfield says he wants to marry her wants nothing better. Then let him.
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