The Eagle's Shadow

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which she delighted to

. Let us keep discreet

an

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f her embroideries, r

celets, and chains--in

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ture had fashioned he

he craft and skill and

roperly; and in Margare

ld he have beheld the

o gloried in his own

no putting up wi

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ning straight up the mi

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fat pearls she so oft

frock, say, with arab

on said reminded him o

blue one--décolleté,

had woven out of mist

hings, I repeat, almost

pidary and a milliner

and trades and scien

n girl what she is--

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liable feminine author

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on what fabric composed

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alled medallions. The g

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