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姜汁鸭鸭

Like all that pertains to crime,it seemed never to have known a youthful era. Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grassplot, much overgrown with burdock,pigweed, appleperu, and such unsightly vegetation , which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society,a prison. But, on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold,was a wild rose-bush,covered,in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom,in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.

2022-02-19

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• 陈莹lydia
  'I'll stay with you,  dear  Helen: no one shall take me away

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• 姜汁鸭鸭
  Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal,we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers,and present it to the reader. It may serve, let us hope, to symbolise some sweet moral blossom, that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow.

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