[Lord Ormont and his Aminta by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookLord Ormont and his Aminta CHAPTER II 21/39
They enjoyed the peculiar novel relish of it, coming from a social pressman and a dame of high society. The different hemispheres became known as one sphere to these birds of broad wing convening in the upper blue above a quartered carcase earth. A week later a letter, the envelope of a bulky letter in Lord Ormont's handwriting, reached Lady Charlotte.
There was a line from the editor: "Would it please your ladyship to have this printed ?" She read the letter, and replied: "Come to me for six days; you shall have the best mount in the county." An editor devoid of malice might probably have forborne to print a letter that appealed to Lady Charlotte, or touched her sensations, as if a glimpse of the moon, on the homeward ride in winter on a nodding horse, had suddenly bared to view a precipitous quarry within two steps. There is no knowing: few men can forbear to tell a spicy story of their friends; and an editor, to whom an exhibition of the immensely preposterous on the part of one writing arrogantly must be provocative, would feel the interests of his Journal, not to speak of the claims of readers, pluck at him when he meditated the consignment of such a precious composition to extinction.
Lady Charlotte withheld a sight of the letter from Mr.Eglett.She laid it in her desk, understanding well that it was a laugh lost to the world.
Poets could reasonably feign it to shake the desk inclosing it.
She had a strong sense of humour; her mind reverted to the desk in a way to make her lips shut grimly.
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