three-and-thirty-year-old

Updated: June 29, 2025

He is thinking how the Blanc de Perle and rouge vegetal is showing on her three-and-thirty-year-old face, and what his life would be like if he listened to his father and married her. He shudders inwardly and gives it up "that way madness lies," and while there is a pistol left, wherewith to blow his brains out, he can still hope to escape a worse fate.

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