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"They sit at a banquet table with many nobles" | "Sasha! Sasha! Sasha!" | "They come upon a performance of Othello" |
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"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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