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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER XXIV
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LOVERS MATED.
He was benevolently martial, to the extent of paternal, in thinking his girl, of whom he deigned to think now as his countess, pardonably foolish.

Woman for woman, she was of a pattern superior to the world's ordinary, and might run the world's elect a race.

But she was pitifully woman-like in her increase of dissatisfaction with the more she got.
Women are happier enslaved.

Men, too, if their despot is an Ormont.
Colonel of his regiment, he proved that: his men would follow him anywhere, do anything.


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