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this old French beauty secret

[...] Turn your head dear, turn your face this way, do you see what I mean now, Teen? the same delicate glow on her clear white skin when they talk about being just a little bit pregnant like those French women in the eighteenth century for that glow that comes on the first month or so and then the…

—p.314 A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
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your self regulating profession

—I’ve looked! All I’ve been doing I’ve been looking it’s taken me this long to finally see what I’m looking at hush things up, keep out of the papers, fight the good fight and lose there’s no disgrace in that is there? Your great Code of what was it you just told us? of professional responsibility …

—p.279 by William Gaddis
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does he look like he needs a good tax loss?

—My God Harry what do you want him to do, just forget the whole thing?

—Might not be a bad idea Christina, he fought the good fight didn’t he? That’s the important thing, fought the good fight and lost no disgrace in that is there? Might even be able to take a good tax loss on the . . .

—Harr…

—p.278 by William Gaddis
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does he look like he needs a good tax loss?

—My God Harry what do you want him to do, just forget the whole thing?

—Might not be a bad idea Christina, he fought the good fight didn’t he? That’s the important thing, fought the good fight and lost no disgrace in that is there? Might even be able to take a good tax loss on the . . .

—Harr…

—p.278 by William Gaddis
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deceitfully led him to believe she was fourteen

[...] Among the dozen arrests that evening, that of Billy Pinks, thirty-two, an unemployed auto body worker charged with assault was later reduced to statutory rape on his plea that the ‘provocative message on her T shirt got his juices going’ and the admission by the twelve-year-old victim that sh…

—p.261 by William Gaddis