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The March Family Trilogy

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Nothing else can soothe my wounded feelings.

You were not having your boots blacked: why shouldn't he have supposed you were a New-Yorker, and I a country cousin ?" "They always know.

Don't you remember Mrs.Williams's going to a Fifth Avenue milliner in a Worth dress, and the woman's asking her instantly what hotel she should send her hat to ?" "Yes; these things drive one to despair.

I don't wonder the bodies of so many genteel strangers are found in the waters around New York.

Shall we try the south side, my dear?
or had we better go back to our rooms and rest awhile ?" Mrs.March had out the vertebrate, and was consulting one of its glittering ribs and glancing up from it at a house before which they stood.


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