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Its utter mediocrity was stressed by the fraudulent chic of alliterations and the meretricious richness of illiterate rhymes.

I knew that if I mentioned his name there would flash in the eyes of each of them the same sacerdotal alarm

the level of her lemonade sinking with a kind of childish celerity

In short, I discovered that once a week, at her house, she betrayed me with a respectable paterfamilias, who, incidentally, was so infernally meticulous that he would bring his own shoe trees with him.

Katya and I are not coevals. I was going on eighteen, and she on twenty.