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Updated: August 13, 2026

Browny, after all, was the girl for Matey. She won a victory right away and out of hand, on behalf of her cloud-and- moon sisters, as against the sunny-meadowy; for slanting intermediates are not espied of boys in anything: conquered by Browny; they went over to her colour, equal to arguing, that Venus at her mightiest must have been dark, or she would not have stood a comparison with the forest Goddess of the Crescent, swanning it through a lake on the leap for run of the chase watching the dart, with her humming bow at breast.

George Meredith - Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 1