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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER XXIII
19/22

'You used to show me these declaration epistles.' 'Not the names.' 'Not the names--no!' 'When we had left the country, I showed you why it had been my wish to go.' 'Xarifa was and is female honour.

Take the key, open that box; I will make inquiries.

But, my dear, you guess everything.

Your little box was removed for the bigger impression to be produced by this one.' A flash came out of her dark eyes.
'No, you guess wrong this time, you clever shrew! I wormed nothing from you,' said he.

'I knew you kept particular letters in that receptacle of things of price: Aminta can't conceal.


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