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Bed-bound Arabella first received into her garret the prince disguised as
the good doctor [grt]
Slumped in a chair ;
Then she paused, and frowned, as if about to correct herself
No storming or flouncing out
She turned away and simply drifted out
Feeling he was still in disgrace in the Tallis household, thought he might
begin to rehabilitate himself by pleasing Briony , _
;
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Humming softly to herself
A view of the driveway and the lake across which lay a column of
shimmering phosphorescence; ; _
Heavy straps and faded steamer labels ; _
Caught the faint sooty scent of a railway carriage ;
; ;
Her touch left little patches of shrinking condensation _
Formless time for the cousins ;
Made loud howling noises ; ;
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The scuffed blue brick was where they had left it _
They stood about and Jackson said, I don't like it here.
The simplicity of the remark unhinged his brother who went by a wall and
found something of interest in the skirting board which he worried with
the tip of his shoe. __
Jackson was tearful too ;
The soft consonants suggested an unthinkable obscenity, the sibilant
ending whispered the familys shame. __

Jackson himself looked distraught as the word left him [dstrt]

But he himself had made the invocation useless, a ruined totem of a lost
golden age. [nvken]
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The stricken Arabella ; ;
It really was a curious face, with the features scrunched up around the
eyebrows_;
He settled his trousers creases as he looked from Quincey to Quincey.
Lolas attention was drawn to the black and white leather of his brogues,
and he was aware of her admiring them and waggled one foot to a rhythm
in his head. __;
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They were awed, but not completely surprised , that their own disaster
should rant with these godly affairs. _
There had been an impropriety, or even an insult. [mprprati]

He voice gave out when she began, and she was obliged to clear her
throat and start again.
He raised his eyebrows, which were thick and fused together, and blew a
dismissive, blubbery sound through his lips ___
[blbr]
It was a construction she must have once overheard, and she had uttered
it in blind faith, like an apprentice mouthing the incarnation of a magus.
__; _[nk
nen]_
Marshall winced in acknowledgement of his error ; [wns]
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All his young sisters had appeared, prattling and touching and pulling at
his clothes. [prtl]
Now he saw that the girl was almost a young woman, poised and
impervious, quite the little Pre-Raphaelite princess with her bangles and
tresses, her painted nails and velvet choker. _
_; [bgl]_ _[velvt]_ ;
[tk(r)]
They had in fact seen a matinee pantomime at the London Palladium
during which Lola had spilled a strawberry drink down her frock.
[mtne]_ __
They make a wooden thingy of your foot and keep it on a shelf forever.
thingumbob

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Before too much glory could be heaped upon his brother, Pierrot added,
We heard you talking at the pool.
A rectangular bar wrapped in grease-proof paper
It had a smooth shell of drab green against which he clicked his fingernail.
; [drb]_
Our dad say there isnt going to be a war. Well, hes wrong. Marshall
sounded a little testy, and Lola said reassuringly, Perhaps there will be
one. _ [rirli]
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They could hardly plead for Amo now.
Watching her closely over the steeple he made with his hands in front of
his face [stipl]
It cracked loudly as it yielded to her unblemished incisors ;
[nblemt]_ _[nsaz(r)]
And then she called again, more insistently