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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER XII
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Emile Grenat, Adolf Fleischer, and an Italian, Vincentino Chiuse, are prepared to start with me: and they are men of attainments; they will throw up their positions; they will do me the honour to trust to my leadership.
It's not scaling Alps or commanding armies, true.' 'It may be better,' said Aminta, and thought as she spoke.
'Slow work, if we have a taste for the work, doesn't dispirit.
Otherwise, one may say that an African or South American traveller has a more exciting time.

I shall manage to keep my head on its travels.' 'You have ideas about the education of girls ?' 'They can't be carried out unaided.' 'Aid will come.' Weyburn's confidence, high though it was, had not mounted to that pitch.
'One may find a mate,' he said.

The woman to share and practically to aid in developing such ideas is not easily found: that he left as implied.
Aminta was in need of poetry; but the young schoolmaster's plain, well-directed prose of the view of a business in life was welcome to her.
Lord Ormont entered the room.

She reminded him of the boys of High Brent and the heroine Jane.

He was ready to subscribe his five-and-twenty guineas, he said.


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