Singular indeed; but men, even great men, men of title, are so, some of them, whom you could least suspect of their being so.

He would speak the "g" in Nargett, and he, declined--after a remonstrance he declined--to pass Pagnell under the cedilla.

Lord Ormont spoke the name like a man hating it, or an English rustic: "Nargett Pagnell," instead, of the soft and elegant "Naryett Pagnell," the only true way of speaking it; and she had always taken that pronunciation of her name for a test of people's breeding.

The expression of his lordship's countenance under correction was memorable.
Naturally, in those honeymoony days, the young Countess of Ormont sided with her husband the earl; she declared that her aunt had never dreamed of the cedilla before the expedition to Spain.

When, for example, Alfred Nargett Pagnell had a laughing remark, which Aminta in her childhood must have heard: "We rhyme with spaniel!" That was the secret of Lord Ormont's prepossession against Aminta's aunt; and who can tell?
perhaps of much of his behaviour to the beautiful young wife he at least admired, sincerely admired, though he caused her to hang her head--cast a cloud on the head so dear to him! Otherwise there was no interpreting his lordship.