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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER XIV
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Passing from the living to the dead, from the dead to the living, they were united in his heart.
Her brevity of tone, and her speech, so practical upon a point of need, under a crisis of distress, reminded him of Lady Charlotte at the time of the groom's arrival with her letter.
Aminta was in no hurry to drive.

She liked walking and looking down on London, she said.
'My friend and schoolmate, Selina Collett, comes to me at Whitsuntide.
We have taken a house on the Upper Thames, above Marlow.

You will come and see us, if you can be persuaded to leave your boys.

We have a boathouse, and a bathing-plank for divers.

The stream is quiet there between rich meadows.


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