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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER XX
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Near the end of Ashead main street she had turned to him in her seat beside the driver, and conveyed silently, with the dental play of her tongue and pouted lips, 'No title.' Upon that sign, waxen to those lips, he had said to the driver, 'You took your orders from Lady Charlotte?
And the reply, 'Her ladyship directed me sir, exonerated Lord Ormont so far.
Weyburn remembered then a passage of one of her steady looks, wherein an oracle was mute.

He tried several of the diviner's shots to interpret it: she was beyond his reach.

She was in her blissful delirium of the flight, and reproached him with giving her the little bit less to resent--she who had no sense of resentment, except the claim on it to excuse.
Their landlady entered the room to lay the cloth for tea and eggs.

She made offer of bacon as well, homecured.

She was a Hampshire woman, and understood the rearing of pigs.


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