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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER XX
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The very minor circumstance of their landlady being in the room dammed a flood.
Her money and his amounted to seventeen pounds.

The sum-total was a symbol of days that were a fiery wheel.
Honour and blest adventure might travel together two days or three, he thought.

If the chariot did not pass:--Lord Ormont had willed it.

A man could not be said to swerve in his duty when acting to fulfil the master's orders, and Mrs.Pagnell was proved a hoodwinked duenna, and Morsfield was in the air.

The breathing Aminta had now a common purse with her first lover.


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