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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER XVII
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I 've ordered the phaeton, and you shall take the whip, with me beside you.

That's how my husband and I spent three-quarters of our honeymoon.' Each of the three breakfasted alone.
They met on the terrace.

It was easily perceived that Lord Ormont stood expecting an assault at any instant; prepared also to encounter and do battle with his redoubtable sister.

Only he wished to defer the engagement.

And he was magnanimous: he was in the right, she in the wrong; he had no desire to grapple with her, fling and humiliate.


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