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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER XV
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Lady Charlotte's party buzzed everywhere.

Her ladyship had come to town to head it.

Her ladyship laid trains of powder from dinner-parties, balls, routs, park-processions, into the Lord Chamberlain's ear, and fired and exploded them, deafening the grand official.

Do you consider that virulent Pagan Goddesses and the flying torch-furies are extinct?
Error of Christians! We have relinquished the old names and have no new ones for them; but they are here, inextinguishable, threading the day and night air with their dire squib-trail, if we would but see.

Hissing they go, and we do not hear.
We feel the effects.
Upon the counsel of Mrs.Lawrence, Aminta sent a letter to Lord Ormont at his hotel in Paris, informing him of the position of affairs.


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