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He lives with a parlormaid who respectfully calls him Your Honor.
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I rented a country house for the summer; the owner, a very fat old lady, lived in the lodge, I in the great house; her husband was dead and so were all her children, she was left alone, very fat, the estate sold for debt, her furniture old and in good taste; all day long she reads letters which her husband and son had written to her. Yet she is an optimist. When some one fell ill in my house, she smiled and said again and again: "My dear, God will help."
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N. and Z. are school friends, each seventeen or eighteen years old; and suddenly N. learns that Z. is with child by N.'s father.
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The priezt came … zaint … praize to thee, O Lord.
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What empty words these discussions about the rights of women! If a dog writes a work of talent, they will even accept the dog.