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| | Charlotte Bronte's Shirley : Arthur's Classic Novels |
 | | Hortense, when she mentioned Louis, described him as having what she called 'des moyens,' but as being too backward and quiet. |
 | | Accordingly, as soon as the said Robert was seated at the breakfast-table, and she had helped him to a portion of stewed pears, and cut him a good-sized Belgian tartine, she began to pour out a flood of amazement and horror at the transaction of last night, the destruction of the frames. |
 | | He bent over Caroline's desk and glanced at her grammar, he fingered her pen, he lifted her bouquet and played with it; his horse stamped impatient; Fred Murgatroyd hemmed and coughed at the gate, as if he wondered what in the world his master was doing. |
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