[Lord Ormont and his Aminta by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookLord Ormont and his Aminta CHAPTER XV 25/31
You'll know it, if you don't now.
I should have felt the thing without the aid of Paggy.
So, then, imagine all my nonsense unsaid, and squeeze a drop or two of 'sirop de bon conseil' out of it, as if it were your own wise meditations.' The rest of Mrs.Lawrence's discourse was a swallow's wing skimming the city stream.
She departed, and Aminta was left to beat at her heart and ask whether it had a secret. But if there was one, the secret was out, and must have another name. It had been a secret for her until she heard her friend speak those pin-points that pricked her heart, and sent the blood coursing over her face, like a betrayal, so like as to resemble a burning confession. But if this confessed the truth, she was the insanest of women.
No woman could be surer that she had her wits.
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