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' Eliza thought they were like the toy couple who pop in and out of cardboard weather-houses, the little man holding out an umbrella for the wet, the little lady with a parasol if today will be fine. Captain Puckle had a very long white beard, and his wife was dumpy and tiny as an outsize fairy. She made lace on bobbins, great yellowish cobwebs of lace ....'
— Jun 02, 2018 06:49AM
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'Simone said she was going to marry, and marry well. Mostly Eliza argued against matrimony, and to fame via London and unlimited poems: for even if Timothy came back, she did not believe that he would marry her. '
— Jun 03, 2018 10:48AM
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'Carly said, ‘When I grow up I'm going to have a white silk dress with silver leaves, right down to my feet,’ and Eliza said, ‘Mine's going to be crimson lake.’ She loved the sound of crimson lake, though she did not know what it meant.'
— Jun 03, 2018 07:44AM
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Lying on her stomach, with the brown hot earth beating up at her in little flakes of grass, little crawling stiff-winged things, jewel-flies and beetles, Eliza thought she wouldn't mind dying at all. She wished the ground would capsize in one great landslide, carrying her far down into the sea, whose blossoms of foam tossed and tossed on the scalloped beaches. She went as near to the edge as she dared ....'
— Jun 02, 2018 08:58AM
