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The ten days I spent in the castle gave me an idea of the enviableness of the genuine old nobility, living regardless of expense and not yet infected by the industrial spirit of our times.

From The Children of the World by Heyse, Paul

It was to be impressed upon their minds not only by its supreme enviableness but by its supreme discomfort.

From Tante by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas