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my usually reckless eloquence should
Strange that my usually reckless eloquence should so regularly fail me in the presence of this quiet creature!
— from Barbarossa, and Other Tales by Paul Heyse

made up Ruth Elliot s
In summer with this door wide open and the piazza cool and shady with woodbine and clematis, you would have agreed with the little girls who made up Ruth Elliot's sewing circle, that first Wednesday afternoon, that they were "just lovely!"
— from Miss Elliot's Girls Stories of Beasts, Birds, and Butterflies by Mary Spring Corning

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