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If he prints a second one I shall treat him as a personal enemy." "Better make a friend of him." "How?" "Meet him at my table." She jumped an illumined half-about on her chair. "So I will, then. What are the creature's tastes?" "Hunts, does he?" The editor rose in her mind from the state of neuter to something of a man. "I recollect an article in that paper on the Ormont duel.
The remainder of Aminta's letter referred to her delivery of the Ormont jewel-case at Lord Ormont's London house, under charge of her maid Carstairs. The affairs of the household were stated very succinctly, the drawer for labelled keys, whatever pertained to her management, in London or at Great Marlow.
Lord Ormont went to the window. 'Amends and honours? Mrs. Lawrence hummed and added an operatic flourish of an arm. Something like it might really be imagined. A large square missive was handed to the footman. Thereupon the orderly trotted off. My lord took seat at table, telling the footman to lay 'that parcel' beside the clock on the mantelpiece. Aminta and Mrs.
Well, but my point with you is, you swallow the woman's aunt the lady's aunt without betraying you suffer at all. Lord Ormont has eyes of an eagle for a speck above the surface. All the more because the aunt is a gabbling idiot does he I say it seeing it fire up to defend her from the sneer of the lip or half a sign of it! No, you would be an your guard; I can trust you.
"Men are mortal," he said, with a lot of pretended stuff, deploring our human condition in the elegy strain; and he fell to reckoning the English hero's age as that he, Lord Ormont, had been a name in the world for the last twenty-five years or more. The noble lord could be no chicken.
Is there a wife in Europe who broods on her husband's merits and his injuries as the sister of Thomas Rowsley, Earl of Ormont does? or one to defend his good name, one to work for his fortunes, as devotedly? Over and over Lady Charlotte drove her flocks, of much the same pattern, like billows before a piping gale.
Several times she surprised herself in an interesting pursuit of the story; abominably cold, abominably interested. She fell upon a review of small duties of the day, to get relief; and among them a device for spiriting away her aunt from the table where Mrs. Lawrence wished to meet Lord Ormont. It sprang up to her call like an imp of the burning pit. She saw it ingenious and of natural aspect.
Meredith grew more introspective in his later years, as is shown in such long, analytical novels as, One of Our Conquerors , Lord Ormont and His Aminta , and The Amazing Marriage .
Philippa's admiration of them was like a new- pressed grape-juice after a draught of the ripe vintage. Moreover, Bobby was difficult: the rejected of his English schools was a stiff Ormont at lessons, a wheezy Benlew in the playground: exactly the reverse of what should have been.
Aminta and Lady Ormont might think as one or diversely of the executioner's blow she had undergone. She was a married woman, and she probably regarded the wedding by law as the end a woman has to aim at, and is annihilated by hitting; one flash of success, and then extinction, like a boy's cracker on the pavement.
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