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"They sit at a banquet table with many nobles"

"Sasha! Sasha! Sasha!"

"They come upon a performance of Othello"

"Couples linked together, women leaning on men."

"Morning and evening, they tried to wake him, but still Orlando slept."

"What was most terrible was the sight of the human creatures, trapped on the ice."

"A carriage without any horses, indeed!"

"Who are these bumpkins? Does the Duke always slobber like that?"

The Twentieth Century

"I hope that you will stay with me always." "Yes, mum."

"The Queen studied Orlando. She studied him like a page---"

"So, one night, he threw a terrific party."

"All was lit as if for the coming of a dead queen"

"The house was completely altered"

"The fields were full of shepherds all struck stark in the act of the moment"

"They reached the chapel, light flew through the painted windows..."

"...the great Queen herself."

"The sound of a Russian sea-song sung by sea men"

"Orlando bought herself a complete outfit of such clothes as women then wore..."

"Why don't you look where you're going!"

"I am about to understand..."

"Orlando banished these thoughts."

"In Constantinople, Orlando possessed the power to stir the fancy and rivet the eye."

"With fresh pen and paper, Orlando started again upon her long poem, 'The Oak Tree.'"

"When, with suddenness and severity, came The Great Frost."

"A small kiss, for old time's sake?"

"Yet, after all, are we to blame Orlando? He was young, he was boyish."

"It was a fine evening in December when Orlando arrived home."

"The morning after, as they sat at breakfast-- he told her his name."

"Shelmerdine!"

"I do so long to chop the head off an infidel, but I am, as yet, only sixteen."

"Please, my Lord. Send me to Constantinople."

"I scarcely look a day older!"

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