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An innocent maiden named Herridge,
was cruelly tricked into marriage; when she later found out what her spouse was about, she threw herself under a carriage. Each night father fills me with dread when he sits on the foot of my bed; I'd not mind that he speaks in gibbers & squeaks but for seventeen years he's been dead. A dreary young bank clerk named Fennis wished to foster an aura of menace; to make people afraid he wore gloves of grey suede and white footgear intended for tennis. A lady born under a curse used to drive forth each day in a hearse; from the back she would wail through a thickness of veil: "Things do not get better, but worse." A young man grew increasingly peaky in a house where the hinges were squeaky, the ferns curled up brown, the ceilings flaked down, and all of the faucets were leaky. A gift was delivered to Laura from a cousin who lived in Gomorrah; wrapped in tissue and crepe, it was peeled, like a grape, and emitted a pale, greenish aura. There was a young woman whose stammer was atrocious, & so was her grammar; but they were not improved when her husband was moved to knock out her teeth with a hammer. |
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