Title:  Lord Ormont and his Aminta, v4

Author:  George Meredith

Edition:  10

Language:  English

Character set encoding:  ASCII

Release Date:  September, 2003 [Etext #4480] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on February 25, 2002]

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BOOK 4.

XVII.  Lady Charlotte’s triumph
XVIII.  A scene on the road back
XIX.  The pursuers
XX.  At the sign of the jolly Cricketers
XXI.  Under-currents in the minds of lady Charlotte and lord Ormont
XXII.  Treats of the first day of the contention of brother and sister
XXIII.  The Ormont jewels

CHAPTER XVII

LADY CHARLOTTE’S TRIUMPH

One of the days of sovereign splendour in England was riding down the heavens, and drawing the royal mantle of the gold-fringed shadows over plain and wavy turf, blue water and woods of the country round Steignton.  A white mansion shone to a length of oblong lake that held the sun-ball suffused in mild yellow.