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And she, at first astonished, was soon all deft housewifeliness, breathless officiousness, and behind my back, of her own intuitiveness, grated some dry almonds found there, and with them sprinkled the fried tench.

From The Purple Cloud by Shiel, M. P. (Matthew Phipps)