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Page 316 - He then returned to the house, and found the ladies assembled round the tea-table, when they smilingly told him they had enjoyed their walk in the shrubberies excessively ; and that they needed no escort. He was now determined to go beyond them in praise of his solitary evening walk, and said that he had never enjoyed himself so much in his life ; that he had met a butterfly, with whom he had wandered in the regions of fancy, which had afforded him much more pleasure than he would have found in chasing...
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| Title | The Crystal Fount for 1851 |
| Editor | Timothy Shay Arthur |
| Publisher | Cornish, Lamport, 1850 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 16 Nov 2006 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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