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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER XVI
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His country won't give him anything to do, so he turns miser.

That's my brother Rowsley's way of taking on old age.' Her brother Rowsley might also be showing another sign of his calamitous condition.

She said to Weyburn, in the carriage, that her brother Rowsley might like having his hair clipped by the Philistine woman; which is one of the ways of strong men to confess themselves ageing.
'Not,' said she, with her usual keen justness 'not that I've, a word against Delilah.

I look upon her as a patriot; she dallied and she used the scissors on behalf of her people.

She wasn't bound to Samson in honour,--liked a strong man, probably enough.


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