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'Any little kindness moves you to-day; and well it may. 'Yes, aunty, said Aminta, and in relation to the cause of her tears she was the less candid of the two.
I gave her the rudiments of literature also: I grounded her in letters as well as in lettering. Amongst my few possessions were still my "Aminta" and my "Fioretti": and I knew much of Dante's comedy by heart. Virginia had a retentive memory and great aptitude for learning.
Aminta was pleasantly surprised next day by the receipt of a note from Mrs. Lawrence Finchley, begging to be invited to lunch if she came, as she had a purpose in the wish to meet my lord. My lord had one of his wilful likings for Isabella Lawrence Finchley, and he consented to the torture of an hour of Mrs.
The chariot was at the door, and the mounted figure of Joshua Abnett, on which he cast not a look or a thought. Aminta was alone. She embraced Selina Collett warmly, and said, in friendly tones, 'Ah! my lord, you are in advance of me. She had dropped Mrs. Pagnell and Mr. Weyburn at two suburban houses; working upon her aunt's dread of the earl's interrogations as regarded Mr. Morsfield.
They were the right boys, Weyburn said; his interview with Gowen, Bench, Parsons, and the others assured him that the school was breathing big lungs. Mr. Cuper, too, had spoken well of them. 'You walked the twenty miles? Aminta interrupted him. 'With my German friend: out and home: plenty of time in the day.
Selina beamed. 'Yes, he did; he always wore them; but now it's a frock-coat instead of a jacket. 'But now he will be a master instead of a schoolboy, said Aminta. 'Let us hope he will prosper.
For I have hitherto given no denials, Nor has he given me cause; I have seen him wildly gaze upon me often, And sometimes blush and smile, but seldom that; And now and then found fault with my replies, And wonder'd where the Devil lay that wit, Which he believ'd no Judge of it could find. Oli. Faith, Madam, that's his way of making love. Am. Oli. How, Aminta, can you sigh in earnest? Am.
This spirit, already present in the Aminta, reappeared in an emphasized form in the Pastor fido, and attained its height in the following century in Marino's epic of Adone. We find it infusing the scene of Mirtillo's first meeting with Amarilli, which may be said to set the tone of the rest of the poem.
She agreed with the lady and gentleman that it might be unwise to go contrary to the boy's bent. Going to school or coming home, a trickle of water would stop him. Aminta said to her companion in French, 'Have you money? She chased his blood. 'Some: sufficient. I think. It stamped their partnership. 'I have but a small amount. Aunt was our paymaster. We will buy the little boy a boat to sail.
From the Aminta, of course, comes Nerina's description of how her lover stole a kiss, though little of the sensuous charm of the original survives; from the Pastor fido her confession of love as soon as she finds herself alone. The opening lines of this speech are, indeed, a direct translation: But these borrowings are by no means unskilful, so far at least as the construction is concerned.
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