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elasticity of a professional contortionist... Her comic resource was inexhaustible, her animal spirits irrepressible and her audacity approached the sublime."
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bills for his daughters Maud (Adelaide Astor) and
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Millionaire, be he plain or be he fair, wealth doth each defect repair"
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291:The Sketch
285:and Ross.
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394:revived
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