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made up lovely exciting tales about
Miss Fairbrother made up lovely, exciting tales about them and their habits, and for some little time, till I grew older, I was under the impression they left their frames at night and sported on the tiles.
— from Dimbie and I—and Amelia by Mabel Barnes-Grundy

my undressing long enough to ask
I stopped in my undressing long enough to ask.
— from A Maid and a Million Men the candid confessions of Leona Canwick, censored indiscreetly by James G. Dunton by James G. (James Gerald) Dunton

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