[Lord Ormont and his Aminta by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookLord Ormont and his Aminta CHAPTER XXIII 8/22
She would not write to her bankers.
Mr.Eglett might go to them, if he thought fit.
Rowsley was to understand that he might call himself married; she would have no flower-basket bunch of a sister-in-law thrust upon her. Lord Ormont and Mr.Eglett walked down to her bankers in the afternoon. As a consequence of express injunctions given by my lady five years previously, the assistant-manager sought an interview with her. The jewels were lodged at her house the day ensuing.
They were examined, verified by the list in Lady Charlotte's family record-book, and then taken away--forcibly, of course--by her brother. He laughed in his dry manner; but the reminiscent glimpses, helping him to see the humour of it, stirred sensations of the tug it had been with that combative Charlotte, and excused him for having shrunk from the encounter until he conceived it to be necessary. Settlement of the affair with Morsfield now claimed his attention.
The ironical tolerance he practised in relation to Morsfield when Aminta had no definite station before the world changed to an angry irritability at the man's behaviour now that she had stepped forth under his acknowledgement of her as the Countess of Ormont.
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