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“And what person?” said Wakem, sharply fixing his eyes with a growing Women Bootcut Jeans look of suspicion on the larger picture.
“Miss Tulliver. The small one is something like what she was when I was at school with her brother at King’s Lorton; the larger one is not quite so good a likeness of what she was when I came from abroad.”
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