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Royal favour, or that of some fair lady, or ladies, was their chief return in many more cases than those for which their accounts were settled by mere dross. It is in the work of such chroniclers as these that one finds a fund of unrepeated historic lore. The dramatists' early days in France, as in England, were their golden days.
Those who think they remember even such a momentous matter as the battle of Waterloo recall now probably but half-a-dozen episodes, a gleam here, and a gleam there, so that what they call remembering the battle of Waterloo, is, in fact, little more than a kind of dreaming so soon vanishes the memory of any unrepeated occurrence.
Or else Anne must have refused to hear or credit what she was persuaded was an impossible falsehood. In all good hearts scandal unrepeated, unbelieved, dies a natural death. To Mrs. Harper's brief, sharp sentence there was no reply; her guest turned to other topics. "Harriet Dugdale comes home to-morrow. It is not often she takes it into her head to pay a three weeks' visit from home.
II. Deep impressions are also made by the repetition, more or less often, of a feeble impression which, if unrepeated, would have soon passed out of our minds.
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