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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER II
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Men of a deliberative aspect were not wanting in approval of the sharp and summary of the sword in air when we have to deal with Indians.

They chose to regard it as a matter of the dealing with Indians, and put aside the question of the contempt of civil authority.
Counting the cries, Lord Ormont won his case.

Festival aldermen, smoking clubmen, buckskin squires, obsequious yet privately excitable tradesmen, sedentary coachmen and cabmen, of Viking descent, were set to think like boys about him: and the boys, the women, and the poets formed a tipsy chorea.

Journalists, on the whole, were fairly halved, as regarded numbers.

In relation to weight, they were with the burgess and the presbyter; they preponderated heavily in the direction of England's burgess view of all cases disputed between civilian and soldier.


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