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Lord Ormont and his Aminta

CHAPTER IX
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Yes, the English fall like men,' said my lord, pardoning and embracing the cuffed nation.

'Bodies knocked over, hearts upright.

That's example; we breed Ironsides out of a sight like that.
If it weren't for a cursed feeble Government scraping 'conges' to the taxpayer--well, so many of our good fellows would not have to fall.

That I say; for this thing is going to happen some day, mind you, sir! And I don't want to have puncheons and hogsheads of our English blood poured out merely to water the soil of a conquered country because English Governments are a craven lot, not daring risk of office by offending the taxpayer.

But, on!' Weyburn sent Lady Charlotte glowing words of the composition in progress.
They worked through a day, and a second day--talked of nothing else in the intervals.


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