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All the objects which he contemplated with as much curiosity and admiration as gratitude, for if, in absorbing his dreams, they had delivered him from...more

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It has since struck me as one of the most touching aspects of the part played in life by these idle, painstaking women that they devote all their gene...more

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... the cattleyas especially (these being, with chrysanthemums, her favourite flowers), because they had the supreme merit of not looking in the least...more