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"I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you—especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous Channel, and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you,—you'd forget me."

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These are my father's decorations from 25 years in the Navy. This is here for that, and as a markup reference for me when adding ribbon racks for articles. Adding certain accoutrements can be especially challenging (for example, the stars on the SSBN Deterrent Patrol insignia), and I suspect this is the cause of the deficits that exist in many relevant articles. I will probably make a more elaborate subpage for this later.

On the topic of phaleristics (Chrome doesn't even realize that is a word), my favorite uniform is the Navy Service Dress Blues and my favorite decorations are the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States) and Navy Cross. Such a complex backstory and history to the former. I love pretty much any kind of polar medal too. In terms of foreign decorations, the Waterloo Medal and the Canadian Forces' Decoration are up there for me as well.

LCDR (O-4), USN

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  Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665
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  Odalisque, 1874
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  Nud dormind, unknown date
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  Miranda, 1875
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  The Lady of Shalott, 1888
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  The Tempest, 1916
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  Lady Godiva, 1897
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  Graziella, 1878
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  The Siren, 1900
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  A Mermaid, 1900
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  Boreas, 1903
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  The Young Shepherdess, 1885
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  The Shepherdess, c. 1895
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  Bather, 1864
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  A Little Coaxing, 1890
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  Seated Nude, 1884
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  Nymphs and Satyr, 1873
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  Evening Mood, 1882
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  Biblis, 1884
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  A Dream of Spring, 1901
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  Dawn, 1881
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  The Two Bathers, 1884
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  After the Bath, 1875
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  The Bather, 1879
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  Bather, 1870
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  The Wave, 1896
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  The Nymphaeum, 1878
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  The Source, 1868
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  The Woman in the Waves, 1868
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  The Source, 1862
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  Mischief and Repose, 1875
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  Jupiter, in the Guise of Diana, and Callisto, 19c.
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  The Quiet Pet, 1906
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  A Fair Reflection, 1915
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  The Tambourine Girl, 1906
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  The Signal, 1899
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  Athenais, 1908
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  In the Tepedarium, 1913
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  Summer Idleness: Day Dreams, 1909
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  A Classical Beauty, Unknown date
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  A Pompeian Bath, 1890
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  An Offering to Venus, 1912
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  In the days of Sappho, 1904
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  Portrait of a young woman in White, 1798
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  Diana and Her Nymphs Bathing, between 1722 and 1724
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  Juditha, 1883
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  Italia und Germania, 1828
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  Beach Scenery with bathing women, Unknown date
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  Two Young Female Friends Kissing, 1789 - 1793
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  Madame Saint-Ange Chevrier, 1807
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  Drei Badende, before 1890
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  Diana in a landscape, 1739
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  The Great Bathers, 1884-1887
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  After the bath, 1888
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  Bathers playing with a crab, ca. 1897
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  The Braid, 1886-1887
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  Young Girls at the piano, 1892
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  Amarillis crowning Mirtillo, 1640-1660
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  Young Woman going to bed, Unknown date
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  Ariadne, 1652
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  Joan of Arc kneeling before angel, late 19c.
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  Flora, 18c.
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  Two Venetian Women, 1898
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  In the Water, early 20c.
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  The Watercarrier, 1908
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  Musette, 1900
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  Sharing the news, 1904
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  Curiosity, 1892
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  A Pensive Moment, 1896
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  On the beach, 1908
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  The Sisters Zénaïde and Charlotte Bonaparte, 1821
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  Diana's toillet, 1847
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  Sapho, unknown date
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  A Summer Night, ca. 1887
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  The Sea Maidens, ca. 1885-1886
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  The First Awakening of Eve, 19c.
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  Flaming June, 1895
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  Bride of Belus, ca. 1885
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  The Chess Game, 1900-1952
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  The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1834
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  Eve, 1889
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  In Werner's Rowing boat, 1917
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  Girls from Dalarna Having a Bath, 1907
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  Victory of Faith, 1891
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  Woman on a black divan, 1869
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  The Dream, 1910
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  The Knight's dream, 1902
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  Nude Woman, 1902
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  Portrait of Young Woman, 1520
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  La donna velata c. 1516
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  Woman combing her hair, 1885
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  After a Bath. Woman Drying the Back of her Neck, 1898
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  Venus Anadyomene, 1520
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  Venus of the Sea, 1838
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  Truth, 1870
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  La comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg, 1840
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  Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria, 1606
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  A Favourite Custom, 1909
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  Carnival Evening, 1886
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  The Temptation, 1912
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  Portrait of Elsa Koeberle, 1898
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  Cave of the Storm Nymphs, 1903
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  Ophelia, 1851-1852
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  Grey Lady, 1883
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  The Knight Errant, 1870
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  The Black Brunswicker, 1860
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  Eve of St. Agnes, 1863
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  Mariana, 1851
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  Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni, 1489-1490
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  Idealized Portrait of a Lady, c. 1480
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  Simonetta Vespucci, 1490
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  Allegory of Vanity, 1632-1636
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  Godspeed, 1900
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  September morning, c. 1912
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  Two Girls with Starfish, unknown date
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  Beauty Revealed, 1828
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  Sarah Goodridge, 1830
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  Stitching the Standard, 1911
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  Interior with Young Woman from Behind, 1904
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  Woman with Seashell, 1885
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  Study of a Female Model, 19th c.
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  Study, Unknown date
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  Bread Baking, 1895
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  Mimmi Zetterström self portrait, 1876
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  Portrait of a Woman, 1886
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  The Artist's Sister-in-law, 1881
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  Spring, 1884
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  Sofia Adlersparre self portrait, 1839
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  At the Dressing-Table (the self-portrait), 1909
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  Nude, 1911
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  Bathhouse, 1912
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  The Bathhouse, 1913
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  Olga Konstantinovna Lanceray, 1910
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  Woman combing, 1897
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  Motherhood, 1905
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  Hypatia, 1885
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  Nude girl on a panther skin, 1844
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  The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed', 1846
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  Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball, 1836
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  Andromeda, c. 1830
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  Slave Market in Ancient Rome, 1884
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  Self-portrait, painting "The Ball Player", 1902
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  The End of the Session, 1886
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  Truth coming from the well to chastise mankind, 1896
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  Nor is she submerged, 1898
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  Esther before Ahasuerus, 1778
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  Et nous aussi nous serons meres ; car.........!, 1794
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  Lady with a Squirrel, c. 1526–1528
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  The Death of Cleopatra, 1659
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  Cleopatra, 1674
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  The Death of Cleopatra, 1874
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  Nude Study, 1935
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  Georgia O’Keeffe, Hands and Breasts, 1919

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  Anna Unterberger
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  Elizabeth Wyn Wood
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  Mary Darnall Carroll
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  Countess Cornwallis
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  Abigail Adams, 1766
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  Louisa Adams, c. 1821-1826
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  Louisa Adams, 1816
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  Louisa Adams, c. 1821-1825
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  Dolley Madison, 1804
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  Dolley Madison, 1820
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  Julia Tyler, 1844
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  Angelica Singleton Van Buren, 1842
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  Margaret Kemble Gage, c. 1771
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  Elizabeth Howard
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  Rachel weeping, 1776
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  Mary Willis Burwell, c. 1718-1746
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  Anna Williams

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  Charlotte Brontê
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  "How dare I, Mrs Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth."
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  I was mortally afraid of its trampling fore-feet.
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  During all that time, she never turned a page.
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  She did not stoop towards me, but only gazed, leaning back in her chair.
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  It removed my veil from its gaunt head, rent it in two parts, and, flinging both on the floor, trampled on them.
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  I said my evening prayers.
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  "Will you give me that?" I asked
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  "Hush, Hannah! I have a word to say to the woman."
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  "Poor Carlo loves me" He is not stern and distant to his friends.
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  "And I am a hard woman - impossible to put off"
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  ...threw himself down on a swell of heath, and there lay still.
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  The next minute she lay smashed on the pavement.
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  "You are altogether a human being, Jane? You are certain of that?"
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  "And have you a pale blue dress on?"
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  Rochester and Jane Eyre

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  Wildcat, 1850
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  Attributes of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, 1769
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  A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch), 1839
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  Home in the Woods, 1847
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  View from Stalheim, 1842
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  Danish Winter Landscape with Dolmen, 1838
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  Hellefossen near Hokksund, 1838
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  Anguish, 1878
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  Isdalen at Svartediket near Bergen, 1842
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  Night on the Eve of Ivan Kupala, 1892
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  Among the Sierra Nevada, 1868
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  Castle by the River, 1820
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  The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, 1863
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  Allegory of Sight, 1617
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  Interior of a Picture Gallery with the Collection of Cardinal Silvio Valenti Gonzaga, 1749
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  Imaginary Gallery of Ancient Roman Art, 1757
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  Picture gallery with views of modern Rome, 1757
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  Zebra, 1763
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  The Temple of Hercules, 1783
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  View of Florence from San Miniato, 1837
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  An Interior, 1837-1840
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  Cliff Dwellers, 1913
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  Working Class City, 1920
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  Nighthawks, 1942
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  Fog Warning, 1885
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  Cairn in Snow, 1807
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  Dovedale by Moonlight, c. 1785
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  Italian landscape with Umbrella Pines, 1807
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  The Tribuna of the Uffizi, 1772-1777
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  St Jerome in His Study, c. 1474
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  St Jerome in His Study, 1514
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  Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg as Saint Jerome, 1526
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  Cabinet of Curiosities, 1690s
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  Rye, 1878
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  Oak Grove, 1887
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  In The Wild North, 1891
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  Rain in Oak Forest, 1891
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  The Forest distant views, 1884
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  Barge Haulers on the Volga, 1870-1873
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  The Four Times of Day: Night, 1757
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  Hunter's home, 1826
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  Glasgow, Saturday Night, unknown date
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  Reflections on the Thames, Westminster, 1880
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  Shipping on the Clyde, 1881
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  Late October, 1882
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  Canny Glasgow, 1887

What I heard was but the melody of children at play, nothing but that, and so limpid was the air that within this vapor of blended voices, majestic and minute, remote and magically near, frank and divinely enigmatic--one could hear now and then, as if released, an almost articulate spurt of vivid laughter, or the crack of a bat, or the clatter of a toy wagon, but it was all really too far for the eye to distinguish any movement in the lightly etched streets. I stood listening to that musical vibration from my lofty slope, to those flashes of separate cries with a kind of demure murmur for background, and then I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that concord.