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But unfortunate lads admonished the old man
"But, unfortunate lads," admonished the old man, "what are you going to do?—a handful of you—where are you going?"
— from Lord Tony's Wife: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

but unreal like a thing of my
I can scarcely believe now that it did: it all seems so distant, vivid but unreal, like a thing of my own invention.
— from A Phantom Lover by Vernon Lee

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