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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER XXIV
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Women, educated to embrace principles through their timidity and their pudency, discover, amazed, that these are not lasting qualities under love's influence.

The blushes and the fears take flight.

The principles depend much on the beloved.

Is he a man whose contact with the world has given him understanding of life's laws, and can hold him firm to the right course in the strain and whirling of a torrent, they cling to him, deeply they worship.

And if they tempt him, it is not advisedly done.


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