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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER XV
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Undoubtedly, she dislikes the vicious.

On that merit she subsists.
The vexatious thing in speaking of her is, that she compels to the use of the rhetorician's brass instrument.

As she is one of the Powers giving life and death, one may be excused.

This tremendous queen of the congregation has brought discredit on her sex for the scourge laid on quivering female flesh, and for the flippant indifference shown to misery and to fine distinctions between right and wrong, good and bad; and particularly for the undiscriminating hardness upon the starved of women.

We forget her having been conceived in the fear of men, shaped to gratify them.


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