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... never did your charming mouths taste the suavité of a meringue à la vanille or à la rose ; you had hardly risen to the height of gin- gerbread . " How I pity you ! " Gentle priestesses of Vesta , cov- ered with so much honor and threat ...
... never did your charming mouths taste the suavité of a meringue à la vanille or à la rose ; you had hardly risen to the height of gin- gerbread . " How I pity you ! " Gentle priestesses of Vesta , cov- ered with so much honor and threat ...
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... never done anything sys- tematically in his life ; it was his tem- perament that flirted , not his will . He simply had that most perilous of all seductive natures , in which the seducer is himself seduced . With a personal refinement ...
... never done anything sys- tematically in his life ; it was his tem- perament that flirted , not his will . He simply had that most perilous of all seductive natures , in which the seducer is himself seduced . With a personal refinement ...
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... never have enough , " said Kate . " And we never can make you repeat any of yesterday's . " " Of course not , " said Aunt Jane . " Nonsense must have the dew on it , or it is good for nothing . " " So you are really happiest alone ...
... never have enough , " said Kate . " And we never can make you repeat any of yesterday's . " " Of course not , " said Aunt Jane . " Nonsense must have the dew on it , or it is good for nothing . " " So you are really happiest alone ...
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Autobiography of a Shaker I II | 20 |
Hamlets of the Stage The I | 40 |
After Election J G Whittier | 50 |
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