“You,” said Purity, “have been long enough out of England to pick up some American brag.” “But surrounded by Americans as I am,” said Cooper, “my brag is like a farthing in a sack of guineas.”
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Chapter 5.
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- Heartfire (1998)
- year
- 1998
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