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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER XVIII
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Help me to feel I am a boarder.

I catch up an old sympathy I had for girls and boys.

For boys! any boys! the dear monkey boys! cherub monkeys! They are so funny.

I am sure I never have laughed as I did at Selina Collett's report, through her brother, of the way the boys tried to take to my name; and their sneezing at it, like a cat at a deceitful dish.

"Aminta"-- was that their way ?' 'Something--the young rascals!' 'But please repeat it as you heard them.' '"Aminta."' He subdued the mouthing.
'It didn't, offend me at all.


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