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the house usually joined and set
The mistress of the house usually joined and set them right in politics, for she had been brought up in Plymouth during the French war, and had learned the old-fashioned Tory doctrine, and to think any other politics sinful.
— from Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

to himself unmixed joy and she
It did not seem to be what Alan had intended; he had figured to himself unmixed joy, and she wanted to see it, and something of the wayward impatience of weakness throbbed at her heart, as Ethel paced the room, and disappeared in her own curtained recess.
— from The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

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