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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER XIV
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That is the delirious energy of our craving, which has no life in our souls.

We do not get to any heaven by renouncing the Mother we spring from; and when there is an eternal secret for us, it is befit to believe that Earth knows, to keep near her, even in our utmost aspirations.
Weyburn still knelt.

He was warned to quit the formal posture of an exhausted act by the thought, that he had come to reflect upon how he might be useful to his boys in a like calamity.
Having risen, he became aware, that for some time of his kneeling Aminta's hand had been on his head, and they had raised their souls in unison.

It was a soul's link.

They gazed together on the calm, rapt features.


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