[Lord Ormont and his Aminta by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookLord Ormont and his Aminta CHAPTER XXIV 4/37
Abstract views of a woman summon opposite advocates: one can never say positively, That is she! But the visible fair form of a woman is hereditary queen of us.
We have none of your pleadings and counter-pleadings and judicial summaries to obstruct a ravenous loyalty.
My lord beheld Aminta take her three quick steps on the plank, and spring and dive and ascend, shaking the ends of her bound black locks; and away she went with shut mouth and broad stroke of her arms into the sunny early morning river; brave to see, although he had to flick a bee of a question, why he enjoyed the privilege of seeing, and was not beside her.
The only answer confessed to a distaste for all exercise once pleasurable. She and her little friend boated or strolled through the meadows during the day; he fished.
When he and Aminta rode out for the hour before dinner, she seemed pleased.
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