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señora and vanished as noiselessly as he
Violet herself rose to her feet and stared wildly, but the Spaniard paused only for one moment, then, fixing his dark eyes upon her face, bowed low, murmured gravely "Pardon, señora," and vanished as noiselessly as he had appeared.
— from The Spider and the Fly; or, An Undesired Love by Charles Garvice

special and very abundant nourishment and henceforth
From this egg, after three days, a small larva will issue, and receive a special and very abundant nourishment; and henceforth we are able to follow, step by step, the movements of one of those magnificently vulgar methods of nature on which, were we dealing with men, we should bestow the august name of fatality.
— from The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck

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