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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER III
19/44

I doubt whether the Rev.
Hampton-Evey would go with a willing heart to prison for his.

All the better for him if he comes head-up out of a trial.

But now see: all these parsons and judges and mobcaps insist upon conformity.

A man with common manly courage comes before them, and he's cast in penalties.
Yet we know from history, in England, France, Germany, that the time of nonconformity brought out the manhood of the nation.

Now, I say, a nation, to be a nation, must have men--I mean brave men.


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