[Lord Ormont and his Aminta by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookLord Ormont and his Aminta CHAPTER XXI 9/25
She would not misconduct herself; she would sit firm.
No woman in England had stouter nerve--few men. But the carriage might be smashed.
He was ignorant of the road she had chosen for her return.
Out of Wiltshire there would be no cliffs, quarries, river-banks, presenting dangers.
Those dangers, however, spring up when horses have the frenzy. Charlotte was nodded at, for a signal to depart; and she drove off, speculating on the bullet of a grey eye, which was her brother's adieu to her. The earl had apparently a curiosity to inspect vacant rooms.
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