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“Xingu!" she scoffed. "Why, it was the fact of our knowing so much more about it than she did—unprepared though we were—that made Osric Dane so furious. I should have thought that was plain enough to everybody!”
― Ethan Frome & Selected Stories
― Ethan Frome & Selected Stories
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