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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER XXI
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She would not misconduct herself; she would sit firm.

No woman in England had stouter nerve--few men.
But the carriage might be smashed.

He was ignorant of the road she had chosen for her return.

Out of Wiltshire there would be no cliffs, quarries, river-banks, presenting dangers.

Those dangers, however, spring up when horses have the frenzy.
Charlotte was nodded at, for a signal to depart; and she drove off, speculating on the bullet of a grey eye, which was her brother's adieu to her.
The earl had apparently a curiosity to inspect vacant rooms.


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