the | |
nimble | |
heat | |
had | |
5 |
long on a certain |
taught precarious | |
holiday | |
frighteningly | |
performed | |
10 |
and |
at tremont and bromfield i | |
paused a moment because | |
on the frying | |
curb the | |
15 |
quiet face |
lay | |
which had been dorothy | |
and once | |
permitted | |
20 |
me for |
twenty | |
iron | |
men | |
her common purple | |
25 |
soul |
the absurd eyelids sulked | |
enormous | |
sobs puckered the foolish | |
breasts the | |
30 |
droll |
mouth | |
wilted | |
and not old, harry, a | |
woman in the crowd | |
35 |
whinnied and a man squeezing her |
waist said | |
the cop's rung for the | |
wagon but as i was | |
lifting the horror | |
40 |
of her toylike |
head and vainly | |
tried to | |
catch one funny | |
hand opening the hard great | |
45 |
eyes to noone in particular she |
gasped almost | |
loudly | |
i'm | |
so | |
50 |
drunG |
k, dear |
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