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pelf rolling in merrily every day
Oh, it was coming all right, money, jewels, pelf, rolling in merrily every day, there wasn't any stopping it, but he was paying for it, and paying for it at a price he didn't like—Helena.
— from The Miracle Man by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

pencil Rosa is my eldest daughter
At the bottom of this very vague and disjointed, but as it proved afterwards too true description, Signor Nicolo had written in pencil: "Rosa is my eldest daughter; but I shall have to put a stop to it."
— from Dariel: A Romance of Surrey by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

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