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