[Lord Ormont and his Aminta by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookLord Ormont and his Aminta CHAPTER XV 1/31
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SHOWING A SECRET FISHED WITHOUT ANGLING. That great couchant dragon of the devouring jaws and the withering breath, known as our London world, was in expectation of an excitement above yawns on the subject of a beautiful Lady Doubtful proposing herself, through a group of infatuated influential friends, to a decorous Court, as one among the ladies acceptable.
The popular version of it sharpened the sauce by mingling romance and cynicism very happily; for the numerous cooks, when out of the kitchen, will furnish a piquant dish.
Thus, a jewel-eyed girl of half English origin (a wounded British officer is amiably nursed in a castle near the famous Peninsula battlefield, etc.), running wild down the streets of Seville, is picked up by Lord Ormont, made to discard her tambourine, brought over to our shores, and allowed the decoration of his name, without the legitimate adornment of his title.
Discontented with her position after a time, she now pushes boldly to claim the place which will be most effective in serving her as a bath.
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