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Side by side, partly facing, they began their interchange. 'You have weighed what you abandon? 'It weighs little. 'That may be error. You have to think into the future. 'My sufferings and experiences are not bad guides. 'They count. How can you be sure you have all the estimates? 'Was I ever a wife? 'You were and are the Countess of Ormont. 'Not to the world.
A secretary would have no conception of such devoted extravagance. At the most he might have attempted to insinuate a few absurd, sheepish soft nothings, and the Countess of Ormont would know right well how to shrivel him with one of her looks. No lady of the land could convey so much either way, to attract or to repel, as Aminta, Countess of Ormont!
'You try to provoke me; you take liberties. You may call the woman Aminta, I've told you; you insult me when you call the woman by my family name. 'Pardon me, my lady: I have no right to call Lady Ormont Aminta. 'You've never done so, eh? Say! She had him at the edge of the precipice. He escaped by saying, 'Her Christian name was asked the other day, and I mentioned it.
Twice down the columns of panic newspaper correspondence Lord Ormont saw his name cited, with the effect on him that such signs of national repentance approaching lodged a crabbed sourness in his consulting-room, whether of head or breast.
He'd like to be Constable of the Castle, and have an eye on France." "I think he's fond of the French?" "Loves the French. Expects to have to fight them all the same. He loves his country best. Here's the man everybody's abusing!" "I demur, my lady. I was dining the other day with a client of mine, and a youngster was present who spoke of Lord Ormont in a way I should like you to have heard.
And to name the word wife for Thomas Rowsley, Earl of Ormont, put up the porcupine quills she bristled with at the survey of a sex thirsting, and likely to continue thirsting, for such honour. What woman had she known fit to bear the name? She had assumed the judicial seat upon the pretensions of several, and dismissed them to their limbo, after testifying against them.
'Do you remember the offender's name? the Countess of Ormont said; and Weyburn said 'Oh yes, I 've not forgotten the incident. Her eyes, wherein the dead time hung just above the underlids, lingered, as with the wish for him to name the name. She said: 'I am curious to hear how you would treat a case of that sort. Would you preach to the boys? 'Ten words at most.
She would not travel; she would fix in this London of theirs, and scheme to be hailed the accepted Countess of Ormont. She manoeuvred; she threw him on the veteran soldier's instinct, and it resulted spontaneously that he manoeuvred. Hence their game of Pull, which occupied him a little, tickled him and amused.
On the other hand, Lord Ormont spoke of her in terms of esteem, and he was no fondling dotard. How to compromise the matter for the sake of peace?
We have relinquished the old names and have no new ones for them; but they are here, inextinguishable, threading the day and night air with their dire squib-trail, if we would but see. Hissing they go, and we do not hear. We feel the effects. Upon the counsel of Mrs. Lawrence, Aminta sent a letter to Lord Ormont at his hotel in Paris, informing him of the position of affairs.
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