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It Is The Afternoon Of A Hotfull Summer ...
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114 THE BECOBB OF A YANISHED LIFE . j |
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1864, page 114, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041864/page/42/
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