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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER XX
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Her husband had been a cricketer, and played for his county.

He didn't often beat Hampshire! They had a good garden of vegetables, and grass-land enough for two cows.

They made their own bread, their own butter, but did not brew.
Weyburn pronounced for a plate of her home-cured.

She had children, the woman told him--two boys and a girl.

Her husband wished for a girl.


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