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“Mayn’t I tell the other girls that I’ve been an odalisque?”
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"Mr. Prentice," says Jane impudently, "you mayn't know it, but you are going to sing us a comic song after dinner."
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But Dr. Eldridge mayn't be right—perhaps it's something a thousand times worse than measles....
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He has such notions about the new style—which we—which you and I mayn't always approve.
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I can't say, Captain, how important it may or mayn't have been to the country at large; but this I do calculate, that it was mighty important to them that had the fighting on't.
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