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“Valancy got up and dressed, with a deepening of that curious sense of freedom. When she had finished with her hair she opened the window and hurled the jar of potpourri over into the next lot. It smashed gloriously against the schoolgirl complexion on the old carriage-shop. “I’m sick of the fragrance of dead things,” said Valancy.”

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Book:The Blue Castle
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