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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER XVII
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I gymnasticized them in my regiment.
I'd have challenged any French regiment to out-walk or out-jump us, or any crack Tyrolese Jagers to out-climb, though we were cavalry.' 'Yes, my lord, and exercised crack corps are wanted with us,' Weyburn replied.

'The English authorities are adverse to it, but it 's against nature--on the supposition that all Englishmen might enrol untrained in Caesar's pet legion.

Virgil shows knowledge of men when he says of the row-boat straining in emulation, 'Possunt quia posse videntur.'' He talked on rapidly; he wondered that he did not hear Lady Charlotte exclaim at what she must be seeing.

From the nearest avenue a lady had issued.

She stood gazing at the house, erect--a gallant figure of a woman--one hand holding her parasol, the other at her hip.


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