[Lord Ormont and his Aminta by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookLord Ormont and his Aminta CHAPTER X 6/15
He passed it, and said 'Durandarte runs a mile on the mouth, and the Coriolanus of their newspapers helps a stage-player to make lantern jaws.
Neither of them comes well from the lips of my girl.
After seven years she should have hit on a nickname, of none of the Christian suit. I am not "at home" either with "my lord." However, you send me off to Paris alone; and you'll be alone and dull here in this London. Incomprehensible to me why!' 'We are both wondering ?' said Aminta. 'You 're handsomer than when I met you first--by heaven you are!' She flushed her dark brown-red late-sunset.
'Brunes are exceptional in England.' 'Thousands admiring you, of course! I know, my love, I have a jewel.' She asked him: 'What are jewels for ?' and he replied, 'To excite cupidity.' 'When they 're shut in a box ?' 'Ware burglars! But this one is not shut up.
She shuts herself up.
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