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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER IV
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Good hunting country there." "Lady Charlotte kindly gave me a mount, my lord." "I knew your father by name--Colonel Sidney Weyburn.

You lost him at Toulouse.

We were in the Peninsula; I was at Talavera with him.

Bad day for our cavalry." "Our officers were young at their work then." "They taught the Emperor's troops to respect a charge of English horse.
It was teaching their fox to set traps for them." Lord Ormont indicated a chair.

He stood.
"The French had good cavalry leaders," Weyburn said, for cover to a continued study of the face, "Montbrun, yes: Murat, Lassalle, Bessieres.


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