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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER XIX
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He tired of her, and was ashamed of her inferior birth to his own, after the first year, except on the Continent, where she had her rights.

Me he never forgave for helping make him the happy man he might have been in spite of his age.

For she is lovely! But it's worse for a lovely woman with a damaged reputation.
And that 's his cunning.

How she could be so silly as to play into it! She can't have demeaned herself to look on that secretary! I said from the first he seemed as if thrown into her way for a purpose.

But she has pride: my niece Aminta has pride.


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