Title:  Lord Ormont and his Aminta, v5

Author:  George Meredith

Edition:  10

Language:  English

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LORD ORMONT AND HIS AMINTA

By George Meredith

BOOK 5.

XXIV.  Lovers mated
XXXV.  Preparations for A resolve
XXVI.  Visits of farewell
XXVII.  A marine Duet
XXVIII.  The plighting
XXIX.  Aminta to her lord
XXX.  Conclusion

CHAPTER XXIV

LOVERS MATED

He was benevolently martial, to the extent of paternal, in thinking his girl, of whom he deigned to think now as his countess, pardonably foolish.  Woman for woman, she was of a pattern superior to the world’s ordinary, and might run the world’s elect a race.  But she was pitifully woman-like in her increase of dissatisfaction with the more she got.  Women are happier enslaved.  Men, too, if their despot is an Ormont.  Colonel of his regiment, he proved that:  his men would follow him anywhere, do anything.  Grand old days, before he was condemned by one knows not what extraordinary round of circumstances to cogitate on women as fluids, and how to cut channels for them, that they may course along in the direction good for them, imagining it their pretty wanton will to go that way!  Napoleon’s treatment of women is excellent example.  Peterborough’s can be defended.