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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER XV
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That lord of yours should take to study you as I have done ever since I fell in love with you.

He 's not counselling himself well in keeping away.' 'Now you speak wisely,' said Aminta.
'Not a particle more wisely.

And the reason is close at hand--see.
You are young, you attract--how could it be otherwise ?--and you have "passion" sleeping, and likely to wake with a spring whether roused or not.

In my observation good-man t'other fellow--the poet's friend--is never long absent when the time is ripe--at least, not in places where we gather together.

Well, one is a buckler against the other: I don't say with lovely Amy May,--with an honourable woman.


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