[Gutenberg 4480] • Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 4

[Gutenberg 4480] • Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 4
Authors
Meredith, George
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Tags
english fiction -- 19th century
ISBN
9781330265598
Date
1999-10-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.08 MB
Lang
en
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Excerpt from Lord Ormont and His Aminta, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel

Ay, be the porker sow it's getting liker and liker to every year! Lord Ormont exclaimed, and sprang on his feet. Take a pen. Shut up that box. We'll give 'em digestive biscuits for their weak stomachs. Invasion can't be done, they say! I tell the doddered asses Napoleon would have been over if Villeneuve had obeyed him to the letter. Villeneuve had a fit of paralysis, owing to the prestige of N elson - that's as it happened. And they swear at prestige, won't believe in it, because it's not fat bacon. I tell them, after Napoleon's first battles, prestige did half his work for him.

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