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No individual word was decipherable, but, with a bold reader, groups could be made to conform to a scheme based on probabilities.

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It is my belief that six out of every dozen people who go out hunting are disagreeably conscious of a nervous system, and two out of six are in what is brutally called 'a blue funk'.

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I detest collaterals. Blood may be thicker than water, but it is also a great deal nastier.

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Edith Somerville

Edith Somerville

Born: May 2, 1858
Died: October 8, 1949 (aged 91)
Bio: Edith Anna Œnone Somerville was an Irish novelist who habitually signed herself as "E. Œ. Somerville". She wrote in collaboration with her cousin "Martin Ross" under the pseudonym "Somerville and Ross".
Known for:
  1. The Real Charlotte (1894)
  2. An Irish Cousin (1889)
  3. In Mr. Knox's country (1915)
  4. All on the Irish Shore (1903)
  5. BigHouse of Inver

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