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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER X
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You won't be understood.' 'I like my countrymen.' 'The women have good looks--of the ungarnished kind.

The men are louts.' 'They are brave.' 'You're to see their fencing.

You'll own a little goes a long way.' 'I think it will amuse me.' 'So I thought when I gave the nod to Isabella your friend.' 'You like her ?' 'You, too.' 'One fancies she would make an encouraging second in a duel.' 'I will remember...

when I call you out.' 'Oh, my dear lord, you have dozens to choose from leave me my one if we are to enter the lists.' 'We are, it seems; unless you consent to take the run to Paris.

You are to say Tom or Rowsley.' 'The former, I can never feel at home in saying; Rowsley is Lady Charlotte's name for you.' The name of Lady Charlotte was an invitation to the conflict between them.


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