What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds -- this faithful witness against us for good or evil.


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To be more precise it was the color of heartache.
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I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover in...
SUSANNA CLARKE
And ye sall walk in silk attire, And siller hae to spare, Gin ye'll consent to be his bride, ...
MISS SUSANNA BLAMIRE
Jenny, she's aw weet, peer body, Jenny's like to cry; For she hes weet her petticoats In...
MISS SUSANNA BLAMIRE AND MISS CATHERINE GILPIN