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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER II
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LADY CHARLOTTE.
Love-passages at a school must produce a ringing crisis if they are to leave the rosy impression which spans the gap of holidays.

Neither Matey nor Browny returned to their yoke, and Cuper's boys recollected the couple chiefly on Sundays.

They remembered several of Matey's doings and sayings: his running and high leaping, his bowling, a maxim or two of his, and the tight strong fellow he was; also that the damsel's colour distinctly counted for dark.

She became nearly black in their minds.
Well, and Englishmen have been known to marry Indian princesses: some have a liking for negresses.


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