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with a thousand perfiunes, my faithful, tender, old friend and accomplice, with her
everlasting smile. I'll never trail after them again. I'm fixed forever on a single
meridian. Strangely enough, the Student is interested in me. Must discourage him
...
with a thousand perfiunes, my faithful, tender, old friend and accomplice, with her
everlasting smile. I'll never trail after them again. I'm fixed forever on a single
meridian. Strangely enough, the Student is interested in me. Must discourage him
...
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Must I set myself to become like them? To talk, dance, smile? Must I become that
languid and cooing young woman leaning up against a man beneath my
bedroom window, while Mama plays a waltz on the drawing-room piano as the
guests, ...
Must I set myself to become like them? To talk, dance, smile? Must I become that
languid and cooing young woman leaning up against a man beneath my
bedroom window, while Mama plays a waltz on the drawing-room piano as the
guests, ...
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He knows how to smile. Well, let him love life and make the best of it. I would've
liked to have told him that, very simply, without bitterness, somewhere other than
within these walls, in this revolting room. Sitting on a corner banquette in 125 Z ...
He knows how to smile. Well, let him love life and make the best of it. I would've
liked to have told him that, very simply, without bitterness, somewhere other than
within these walls, in this revolting room. Sitting on a corner banquette in 125 Z ...
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