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Wednesday, January 29, 2003 "For some time George strove to keep the liaison a secret. There was a woman in the case, that he admitted. 'And not the first either,' said Ensign Spooney to Ensign Stubble. 'That Osborne's a devil of a fellow. There was a judge's daughter at Demerara [Guyana] went almost mad about him; then there was that beautiful quadroon girl, Miss Pye, at St. Vincent...' " - Vanity Fair, Chapter XIII posted by Jonathan | 2:06 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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