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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER VIII
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We have to speculate which way does the giant incline to go?
and turn him according to the indication.
Mrs.Lawrence was driven by her critic mood to think Aminta relied--erroneously, after woman's old fashion--on the might of superb dark eyes after having been captured.

It seemed to her worse than a beautiful woman's vanity, a childishness.

But her boy's head held boy's brains; and Lord Ormont's praise of the splendid creature's nerve when she had to smell powder in Spain, and at bull-fights, and once at a wrecking of their carriage down a gully on the road over the Alpujarras, sent her away subdued, envious, happy to have kissed the cheek of the woman who could inspire it..


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