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In Harper's Fourth Reader, edition of 1888, I found an article entitled The Difference Between the Plants and Animals. It takes up several pages and includes some of the fanciest language the senior Mr. Harper could disinter from the Unabridged.
"Poor Märchen!" said the Queen as she caressed her cheek, which was wet with a tear. "But, perhaps, thou only fanciest all this." "Believe me, I feel it but too well," rejoined Märchen; "they love me no more. Wherever I go, cold looks meet me; nowhere am I any more gladly seen; even the children, who ever loved me so well, laugh at me, and slyly turn their backs upon me."
"But what do you say? Come, now." "Well, then, ye don't look very bad, exceptin' the glare an' glitter of the eyes of ye, an' yer fancies." "Fanciest? What fancies?" "Why, yer fancies that ye're Lady Dudleigh, an' all that about Sir Lionel." Lady Dudleigh started to her feet. "What!" she exclaimed. "Why, I am Lady Dudleigh." "There, there!" said the woman, soothingly; "sure I forgot myself.
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