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The Recognitions
Even Camilla had enjoyed masquerades, of the safe sort where the mask may be dropped at the critical moment it presumes itself as reality.
Manhattan Transfer
Three gulls wheel above the broken boxes, orangerinds, spoiled cabbage heads that heave between the splintered plank walls, the green waves spume under the round bow as the ferry, skidding on the tide, crashes, gulps the broken water, slides, settles slowly into the slip.
Little, Big
On a certain day in June, 19--, a young man was making his way on foot northward from the great City to a town or place called Edgewood, that he had been told of but had never visited.
Waverley
The title of this work has not been chosen without the grave and solid deliberation which matters of importance demand from the prudent.
The Death of the Heart
That mornining's ice, no more than brittle film, had cracked and was now floating in segments.
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