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letter was couched in the following terms:-- "MADAM,--The arrangement will suit me just as well. I can have Lord David for my lover.--(Signed) JOSIANA." This note, whether a true copy or a forgery, was received by all with the greatest enthusiasm. A young lord, Charles Okehampton, Baron Mohun, who belonged to the wigless faction, read and re-read it with delight. Lewis de Duras, Earl of Faversham, an Englishman with a Frenchman's wit, looked at Mohun and smiled. "That is a woman I should like to marry!" exclaimed Lord Mohun. The lords around them overheard the following dialogue between Duras and Mohun:-- "Marry the Duchess Josiana, Lord Mohun!" "Why not?" "Plague take it." "She would make one very happy." "She would make many very happy." "But is it not always a question of many?" "Lord Mohun, you are right. With regard to women, we have always the leavings of others. Has any one ever had a beginning?" "Adam, perhaps." "Not he." "Then Satan." "My dear lord," concluded Lewis de Duras, "Adam only lent his name. Poor dupe! He endorsed the human race. Man was begotten on the woman by the devil." Hugh Cholmondeley, Earl of Cholmondeley, strong in points of law, was asked from the bishops' benches by Nathaniel Crew, who was doubly a peer, being a temporal peer, as Baron Crew, and a spiritual peer, as Bishop of Durham. "Is it possible?" said Crew. "Is it regular?" said Cholmondeley. "The investiture of this peer was made outside the House," replied the bishop; "but it is stated that there are precedents for it." "Yes. Lord Beauchamp, under Richard II.; Lord Chenay, under Elizabeth: and Lord Broghill, under Cromwell." "Cromwell goes for nothing."
"What do you think of it all?" "Many different things." "My Lord Cholmondeley, what will be the rank of this young Lord Clancharlie in the House?" "My Lord Bishop, the interruption of the Republic having displaced ancient rights of precedence, Clancharlie now ranks in the peerage between Barnard and Somers, so that should each be called upon to speak in turn, Lord Clancharlie would be the eighth in rotation." "Really! he--a mountebank from a public show!" "The act, _per se_, does not astonish me, my Lord Bishop. We meet with such things. Still more wonderful circumstances occur. Was not the War of the Roses predicted by the sudden drying up of the river Ouse, in Bedfordshire, on January 1st, 1399. Now, if a river dries up, a peer may, quite as naturally, fall into a servile condition. Ulysses, King of Ithaca, played all kinds of different parts. Fermain Clancharlie remained a lord under his player's garb. Sordid garments touch not the soul's nobility. But taking the test and the investiture outside the sitting, though strictly legal, might give rise to objections. I am of opinion that it will be necessary to look into the matter, to see if there be any ground to question the Lord Chancellor in Privy Council later on. We shall see in a week or two what is best to be done." And the Bishop added,-- "All the same. It is an adventure such as has not occurred since Earl Gesbodus's time." Gwynplaine, the Laughing Man; the Tadcaster Inn; the Green Box; "Chaos Vanquished;" Switzerland; Chillon; the Comprachicos; exile; mutilation; the Republic; Jeffreys; James II.; the _jussu regis_; the bottle opened at the Admiralty; the father, Lord Linnæus; the legitimate son, Lord Fermain; the bastard son, Lord David; the probable lawsuits; the Duchess Josiana; the Lord Chancellor; the Queen;--all these subjects of conversation ran from bench to bench. Whispering is like a train of gunpowder. They seized on every incident. All the details of the occurrence caused an immense murmur through the House. Gwynplaine, wandering in the depths of his reverie, heard the buzzing, without knowing that he was the cause of it. He was strangely attentive to the depths, not to the surface. Excess of attention becomes isolation. The buzz of conversation in the House impedes its usual business no more than the dust raised by a troop impedes its march. The judges--who in the Upper House were mere assistants, without the privilege of speaking, except when questioned--had taken their places on the second woolsack; and the three Secretaries of State theirs on the third. The heirs to peerages flowed into their compartment, at once without and within the House, at the back of the throne.
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C t f C lit U i it li lib Courtesy
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I. Chesil II. The Effect of Snow II
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II. The Dregs CONCLUSION.--THE NIGH
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Pindarized. He could have vied in b
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him enough to sup on sometimes. In
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III. In the interior of the van the
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the king is not present; a viscount
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"James Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, ha
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IV. Ursus admired Homo. One admires
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not steal them. The kidnapping of c
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The vivisection of former days was
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subjected. This frightful surgery l
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conferred together. In the seventee
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who did not inform against the Comp
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on a reed scarcely bends it, and, f
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evening intermixed and blurred them
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cliff. This, however, revealed the
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He felt himself put outside the pal
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Every instant troubled barks hasten
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It might be about seven o'clock in
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In the vastness of dispersion he wa
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the child was a thing of which care
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was a signal: they all precipitated
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the man's. Experience is, however,
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CHAPTER I. SUPERHUMAN LAWS. The sno
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While the hooker was in the gulf of
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composition of contradictions, some
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which the sailors had thrown them.
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while he looked into space. "The me
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"It is an old round shot of our war
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some one in the deep,-- "I say, Yes
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"We ought to get into fifty-five fa
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"No." "Death is the east." "I'll st
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dance in which ships lead off with
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Cyclones, in our northern hemispher
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under a catafalque--such is the sno
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"You have not land to starboard." "
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While they were fastening him he la
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lighthouse is a mathematical figure
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No answer. No one on board knew how
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Spun round by the wind, tossed by a
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were ignorant of their whereabouts,
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Each wave, as they neared it, added
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ottom of the well of the abyss. In
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"The carpenter's box is overboard,
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From time to time the chief took a
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Galdeazun looked at the water-mark,
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"Mea culpa!" "Asi sea!" "Aro raï!"
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No voice answered him. He looked do
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The child's danger changed its form
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without a detail. There was now not
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corpse is the icicle of man. The na
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He had tripped upon the slopes of p
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CHAPTER IV. ANOTHER FORM OF DESERT.
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There, by chance and without select
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"Who?" "I." "You? Who are you? when
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"Here are clothes." He chose out of
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dressed, and swathed her in a rag,
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lawless wretches. Vagabonds are pun
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"I do not know." "How do you mean?
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and wife after the fashion of the a
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Raising his eyes, they met those of
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after the close of the revolution a
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III. Never was a situation more cle
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friends had long done him the honou
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epublican reveries. He did not appr
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James II. was a king, and affected
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and by royal licence, Marquises of
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Josiana was "the flesh." Nothing co
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Why object to such manners? Cynicis
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Lord David was ripening. Forty; 'ti
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There was the Hell-fire Club, where
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No one could train like him. The pu
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In Anne's time no meeting was allow
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From a certain point of view, the r
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An obscure but fattening servitude
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Barkilphedro assumed an attitude of
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"But few. But it's all the same. Th
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Court appointments are the drop of
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Patience, temperance, continence, r
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To poison the sting, from time to t
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is necessary--a man, a woman, someb
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filthy conjuring-books, dirty wills
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O my rich gentry, because you canno
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condensation, awaiting the gigantic
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"Madam," said the queen to Josiana,
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CHAPTER XII. SCOTLAND, IRELAND, AND
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Of the two combatants, one was an I
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They looked at each other, approach
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No one was cold now. They laid sixt
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transmutation? Why not? Needed ther
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That he had no remembrance of it wa
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crowd for ever before him and outsi
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and reserved serenity of her look,
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demanded the caterpillar in marriag
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URSUS AS TUTOR, AND URSUS AS GUARDI
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Orpheus and of Egide Binchois. Freq
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might have been dangerous. To be bl
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Nothing. Their happiness was comple
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other. These communicated by open s
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cover of an _Immolatus_, the faithf
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the threshold of the supernatural.
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have neither holes in his clothes,
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What! in the crowd which hungers an
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ugly, stupid, or old. I only mean t
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Trimalcion. Oh, that beautiful and
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day a sudden transition from the no
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_Vograat_ made the crossing from Lo
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Why did he stop? To listen. What to
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These are his merits. Of the other,
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Besides the small fry, the swallowe
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"What a pity that he should not be
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who had died but six months previou
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magnificence of the throne--an ill-
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"What does that mean?" "That means,
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"By what right?" "I am a philosophe
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"You have said that a converted Jew
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Æacus got out of the difficulty by
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tables, the walls, and retiring bac
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sewn all over the body of her dress
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distance. Ursus remained some momen
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herself and in others a tremor of v
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ut it was over. Dea alone remained.
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Forgetfulness fell more and more on
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he worked at the chaste contour of
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"At this hour to-morrow, be at the
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The crackling of the fire burst out
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Dilemmas, transient and at the same
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afterwards they were sitting opposi
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Ursus stooped down, and placed his
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He put the ends of his fingers to h
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order of England, somewhere in his
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When the wapentake, leading the fil
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CHAPTER V. A FEARFUL PLACE. The wap
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each stage. A private carriage, who
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CHAPTER VII. SHUDDERING. When Gwynp
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How long had they proceeded thus? G
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By the side of it was a table cover
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"Closer," said the sheriff. The jus
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proof has been continued according
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"Well?" said the sheriff. "He can s
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"My lord, will your lordship deign
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unknown to any one on earth, except
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the sufferer. "Hardquanonne! when b
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The wapentake acquiesced by a nod.
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nobility. Thomas Howard, Duke of No
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same. And on this point the chancel
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of the tide, storms, calms, breezes
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the queen in the same proportion as
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Beyond the colonnade there played i
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unknown system of wheels, and your
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As he spoke, Barkilphedro began to
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the blind man dazzled. Gwynplaine,
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opening in the darkness. The moth f
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depths full of boiling lava, has th
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The toad talked politics! But now I
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the Green Box. Then he leaned over
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agile spring of Gwynplaine, imitati
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the benches will not give way. We s
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of those who are in front of them,
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"I lavish my onomatopies in vain."
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"I have no leisure to be an Oedipus
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"Three, four, five." He mused. "At
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acks on Ursus, went to the right, i
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Page 378 and 379: "A republican? Not at all! He was s
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Page 416 and 417: Homo wagged his tail. His eyes spar
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of passing pain. One feels a shudde
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"Farewell!" murmured Dea. And he pr
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