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She answered , with all her charm and a certain arch gaiety , that we were going to see the wild swan in the bay . If looks could kill , his would have finished her . His only reply was to write out a ticket .
She answered , with all her charm and a certain arch gaiety , that we were going to see the wild swan in the bay . If looks could kill , his would have finished her . His only reply was to write out a ticket .
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If the busy world is unconscious of what is going on — for those hastening figures may suggest no more than the curiosity which always makes people run to join a crowd - the episode becomes , from one point of view , all the more ...
If the busy world is unconscious of what is going on — for those hastening figures may suggest no more than the curiosity which always makes people run to join a crowd - the episode becomes , from one point of view , all the more ...
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scene , I was struck by its resemblance to Bruegels , not in its | 105 particulars but in its essential elements — a large natural setting , with nature just then in a temperate state , signs of an established society , people going ...
scene , I was struck by its resemblance to Bruegels , not in its | 105 particulars but in its essential elements — a large natural setting , with nature just then in a temperate state , signs of an established society , people going ...
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