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Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually c...more

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Daydreams of wealth or women must have given Carolo that faraway look which never left him; sad and silent, he contemplated huge bank balances and vol...more

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Barnby always dismissed the idea of intelligence in a woman as no more than a characteristic to be endured.