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R1. nor had Matthew done anything astonishing.

S1. planted years ago by an eccentric old farmer.

T1 accounting for her long visitation of dumbness with the only reason he could think of.

U1 There was a girl at the asylum whose name was Hepzibah Jenkins but I always imagined her as Rosalie De Vere[.]

V1. —the most spiritual shadings of crocus and rose and ethereal green, with other elusive tintings for which no name has ever been found.

W1. But when Diana was born there was a schoolmaster boarding there and they gave him the naming of her and he called her Diana.”

“I wish there had been a school-