CHAPTER X.A SHORT PASSAGE IN THE GAME PLAYED BY TWO.
Politest of men in the domestic circle and everywhere among women, Lord Ormont was annoyed to find himself often gruffish behind the tie of his cravat.

Indeed, the temper of our eminently serene will feel the strain of a doldrum-dulness that is goaded to activity by a nettle.

The forbearance he carried farther than most could do was tempted to kick, under pressure of Mrs.Nargett Pagnell.

Without much blaming Aminta, on whose behalf he submitted to it, and whose resolution to fix in England had brought it to this crisis, he magnanimously proposed to the Fair Enemy he forced her to be, and liked to picture her as being, a month in Paris.
Aminta declined it for herself; after six or more years of travelling, she wished to settle, and know her country, she said: a repetition remark, wide of the point, and indicatory to the game of Pull she was again playing beneath her smooth visage, unaware that she had the wariest of partners at the game.
'But go you--do, I beg,' she entreated.

'It will give you new impressions; and I cannot bear to tie you down here.' 'How you can consent to be tied down here, is the wonder to me!' said he.