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Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

A Cathedral Courtship

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    Down on your knees like a man, say I
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    The maid’s name is Hetty Precious, and I could eat almost anything brought me by such a beautifully named person
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    It is certainly very queer that the stupidest man that breathes, one that barely escapes idiocy, can disentangle a railway guide when the brightest woman fails.
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    She was worse than pretty!
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    I was thinking you might like gooseberry-tart and cream for a sweet, miss.’
    Oh that I could have vented my New World enthusiasm in a sigh of delight as I heard those intoxicating words, heretofore met only in English novels!
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    It is very embarrassing to give orders to a person who looks like a Justice of the Supreme Court, but I said languidly
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    Sometimes I wish I could retire from the world for a season and do what I like, ‘surrounded by the general comfort of being thought mad.’
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