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“In her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 94e5832c04c5a48dfbe88a6b83d213c601efa06b26d189515fbd56081fbf6c5c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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