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Updated: June 11, 2025

A little was spilled, to be sure, because she trembled so terribly; still, it was an enormous improvement, and they all praised and congratulated the Teacup. "Ah, these sheltered women!" said Pirlaps. "How an emergency does bring them out!" The battle must have raged for nearly an hour; but at the end of that time there was not so much as a One-Twenty-Second left alive.

Karle Wilson Baker - The Garden of the Plynck