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I don't want them to think that we dress like savages,' she replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas might have resented; and he was struck again by the ...more

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There were certain things that had to be done, and if done at all, done handsomely and thoroughly; and one of these, in the old New York code, was the...more

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The whole truth?" Miss Bart laughed. "What is the truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe. In this case it's a gre...more

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It was before him again in its completeness -- the choice in which she was content to rest: in the stupid costliness of the food and the showy dulness...more