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The Tragic Comedians

CHAPTER IV
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If for only that, she would have hung to him like his shadow.

She could have detected a brazen pretender.

A meaner mortal vaunting his great stores she would have written down coxcomb.

Her social training and natural perception raised her to a height to measure the bombastical and distinguish it from the eloquently lofty.

He spoke of himself, as the towering Alp speaks out at a first view, bidding that which he was be known.


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