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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER XXIV
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What to write to him when nothing occurred! Nothing did occur, unless the arrival of Mr.Weyburn was to be named an event.

She alluded to it: 'Mr.Weyburn has come, expecting to find you here.

The dispatch-box is here.

Is he to await you ?' That innocent little question was a day gained.
One day of boating on the upper reaches of the pastoral river, and walks in woods and golden meadows, was felicity fallen on earth, the ripe fruit of dreams.

A dread surrounded it, as a belt, not shadowing the horizon; and she clasped it to her heart the more passionately, like a mother her rosy infant, which a dark world threatens and the universal fate.
Love, as it will be at her June of life, was teaching her to know the good and bad of herself.


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