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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER XXII
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TREATS OF THE FIRST DAY OF THE CONTENTION OF BROTHER AND.
SISTER In the contest rageing at mid-sea still between the man and the woman, it is the one who is hard to the attractions of the other that will make choice of the spot and have the advantages.

A short time earlier Lord Ormont could have marked it out at his leisure.

He would have been unable to comprehend why it was denied him to do so now; for he was master of himself, untroubled by conscience, unaware, since he was assured of his Aminta's perfect safety and his restored sense of possession, that any taint of softness in him had reversed the condition of their alliance.

He felt benevolently the much he had to bestow, and was about to bestow.


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