[Lord Ormont and his Aminta by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookLord Ormont and his Aminta CHAPTER XV 7/31
Lady Charlotte's party buzzed everywhere.
Her ladyship had come to town to head it.
Her ladyship laid trains of powder from dinner-parties, balls, routs, park-processions, into the Lord Chamberlain's ear, and fired and exploded them, deafening the grand official.
Do you consider that virulent Pagan Goddesses and the flying torch-furies are extinct? Error of Christians! We have relinquished the old names and have no new ones for them; but they are here, inextinguishable, threading the day and night air with their dire squib-trail, if we would but see.
Hissing they go, and we do not hear. We feel the effects. Upon the counsel of Mrs.Lawrence, Aminta sent a letter to Lord Ormont at his hotel in Paris, informing him of the position of affairs.
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