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Before I say more under this head
Before I say more under this head, let me tell you that I returned from Buffalo this morning, much the better for my trip.
— from Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

but in some manner unaccountable to her
she had been happily married for two years, and never before had she been annoyed by impertinent attentions from any one; but in some manner unaccountable to her this young student had been attracted by her, and had made her the object of his attention whenever he had had the opportunity.
— from The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander by Frank Richard Stockton

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