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But Blanche was a Muse a delicate little creature, quite tremulous with excitability, whose eyes filled with tears at the smallest emotion; and who knows, but that it was the very fineness of her feelings which caused them to be froissed so easily? You crush a butterfly by merely touching it. Vulgar people have no idea of the sensibility of a Muse.
William Makepeace Thackeray - The History of Pendennis

She expatiated upon the stupendous alliance which her sweetest Lesbia was about to make; and took credit to herself for having guided Lesbia's footsteps in the right way. 'Smithson is a most difficult person, she wrote. 'The least error of taste on your dear girl's part would have froisséd him.
M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - Phantom Fortune, a Novel
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