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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER II
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When he came to Olmer again he was under one of his fits of reserve, best undisturbed.

Her sympathy with a great soldier snubbed, an active man rusting, kept her from remonstrance.
Three years later she was made meditative by the discovery of a woman's being absolutely in the field, mistress of the field; and having been there for a considerable period, dating from about the time when he turned his back on England to visit a comrade-in-arms condemned by the doctors to pass the winter in Malaga; and it was a young woman, a girl in her teens, a handsome girl.

Handsome was to be expected; Ormont bargained for beauty.

But report said the girl was very handsome, and showed breeding: she seemed a foreigner, walked like a Goddess, sat her horse the perfect Amazon.

Rumour called her a Spaniard.
"Not if she rides!" Lady Charlotte cut that short.
Rumour had subsequently more to say.


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