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adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading “My poor niece became insane,” continued the physician, after a few moment’s silence.
aboutprepositionUS /əˈbaʊt/
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
afterprepositionUS /ˈæftər/
later than; following
From this reading “My poor niece became insane,” continued the physician, after a few moment’s silence.
Ah
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From this reading “Ah! monsieur,” he said, seizing the marquis’s hand, “life has been awful indeed for that poor little woman, so young, so delicate!
alonenounUS /alone/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
andeterminerUS /æn/
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
animal
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From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
army
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From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
atprepositionUS /æt/
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
away
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From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
awful
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From this reading “Ah! monsieur,” he said, seizing the marquis’s hand, “life has been awful indeed for that poor little woman, so young, so delicate!
barefooted
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From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
became
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From this reading “My poor niece became insane,” continued the physician, after a few moment’s silence.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading “Ah! monsieur,” he said, seizing the marquis’s hand, “life has been awful indeed for that poor little woman, so young, so delicate!
beingauxiliary verbUS /ˈbiːɪŋ/
the -ing form of “be”
From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
butconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
byprepositionUS /baɪ/
showing who or what does the action
From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
care
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From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
clothed
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From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
continuednounUS /ˈcontinued/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading “My poor niece became insane,” continued the physician, after a few moment’s silence.
couldmodal verbUS /kʊd/
the past of “can”; used for possibility or polite requests
From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
creaturenounUS /ˈcreature/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
crowd
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From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
deadnounUS /dead/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading She was locked up in a madhouse, in a little town in Germany, at the time her relatives, thinking her dead, divided her property.
delicate
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From this reading “Ah! monsieur,” he said, seizing the marquis’s hand, “life has been awful indeed for that poor little woman, so young, so delicate!
dividednounUS /ˈdivided/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading She was locked up in a madhouse, in a little town in Germany, at the time her relatives, thinking her dead, divided her property.
dragged
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From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
dreadfuladjectiveUS /ˈdrɛdfəl/
extremely frightening or unpleasant
From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
driven
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From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
fatality
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From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
few
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From this reading “My poor niece became insane,” continued the physician, after a few moment’s silence.
Fleuriot
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From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
food
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From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
forprepositionUS /fɔːr/
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading “Ah! monsieur,” he said, seizing the marquis’s hand, “life has been awful indeed for that poor little woman, so young, so delicate!
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
Germany
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From this reading She was locked up in a madhouse, in a little town in Germany, at the time her relatives, thinking her dead, divided her property.
God
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From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
grenadier
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From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
hand
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From this reading “Ah! monsieur,” he said, seizing the marquis’s hand, “life has been awful indeed for that poor little woman, so young, so delicate!
hasauxiliary verbUS /hæz/
the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “Ah! monsieur,” he said, seizing the marquis’s hand, “life has been awful indeed for that poor little woman, so young, so delicate!
hepronounUS /hiː/
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “Ah! monsieur,” he said, seizing the marquis’s hand, “life has been awful indeed for that poor little woman, so young, so delicate!
heels
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From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
herdeterminerUS /hɜːr/
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading She was locked up in a madhouse, in a little town in Germany, at the time her relatives, thinking her dead, divided her property.
horrors
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From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
hospitals
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From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
indeed
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From this reading “Ah! monsieur,” he said, seizing the marquis’s hand, “life has been awful indeed for that poor little woman, so young, so delicate!
insane
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From this reading “My poor niece became insane,” continued the physician, after a few moment’s silence.
kept
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From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
knows
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From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
lifenounUS /life/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Ah! monsieur,” he said, seizing the marquis’s hand, “life has been awful indeed for that poor little woman, so young, so delicate!
like
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From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
littlenounUS /little/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “Ah! monsieur,” he said, seizing the marquis’s hand, “life has been awful indeed for that poor little woman, so young, so delicate!
locked
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From this reading She was locked up in a madhouse, in a little town in Germany, at the time her relatives, thinking her dead, divided her property.
madhouse
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From this reading She was locked up in a madhouse, in a little town in Germany, at the time her relatives, thinking her dead, divided her property.
marquis's
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From this reading “Ah! monsieur,” he said, seizing the marquis’s hand, “life has been awful indeed for that poor little woman, so young, so delicate!
mepronounUS /miː/
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
moment's
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From this reading “My poor niece became insane,” continued the physician, after a few moment’s silence.
monsieur
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From this reading “Ah! monsieur,” he said, seizing the marquis’s hand, “life has been awful indeed for that poor little woman, so young, so delicate!
months
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From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
MydeterminerUS /maɪ/
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading “My poor niece became insane,” continued the physician, after a few moment’s silence.
namenounUS /name/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
niece
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From this reading “My poor niece became insane,” continued the physician, after a few moment’s silence.
nodeterminerUS /noʊ/
not any; not one
From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
often
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From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
physician
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From this reading “My poor niece became insane,” continued the physician, after a few moment’s silence.
pick
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From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
plaything
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From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
poornounUS /poor/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading “My poor niece became insane,” continued the physician, after a few moment’s silence.
property
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From this reading She was locked up in a madhouse, in a little town in Germany, at the time her relatives, thinking her dead, divided her property.
relatives
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From this reading She was locked up in a madhouse, in a little town in Germany, at the time her relatives, thinking her dead, divided her property.
said
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From this reading “Ah! monsieur,” he said, seizing the marquis’s hand, “life has been awful indeed for that poor little woman, so young, so delicate!
scarcely
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From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
seizing
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From this reading “Ah! monsieur,” he said, seizing the marquis’s hand, “life has been awful indeed for that poor little woman, so young, so delicate!
separated
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From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
shepronounUS /ʃiː/
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
silencenounUS /ˈsaɪ.ləns/
Complete absence of sound; a state of quietness and stillness.
From this reading “My poor niece became insane,” continued the physician, after a few moment’s silence.
soconjunctionUS /soʊ/
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading “Ah! monsieur,” he said, seizing the marquis’s hand, “life has been awful indeed for that poor little woman, so young, so delicate!
sometimes
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From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
survived
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From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
tellnounUS /tell/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading “Ah! monsieur,” he said, seizing the marquis’s hand, “life has been awful indeed for that poor little woman, so young, so delicate!
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “My poor niece became insane,” continued the physician, after a few moment’s silence.
theypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
thinkingnounUS /thinking/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading She was locked up in a madhouse, in a little town in Germany, at the time her relatives, thinking her dead, divided her property.
timenounUS /time/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading She was locked up in a madhouse, in a little town in Germany, at the time her relatives, thinking her dead, divided her property.
together
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From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
town
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From this reading She was locked up in a madhouse, in a little town in Germany, at the time her relatives, thinking her dead, divided her property.
two
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From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
unfortunate
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From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
up
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From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
whatpronounUS /wʌt/
used to ask for information about something
From this reading She was often, they tell me, barefooted, and scarcely clothed; for months together, she had no care, no food but what she could pick up; sometimes kept in hospitals, sometimes driven away like an animal, God alone knows the horrors that poor unfortunate creature has survived.
whosedeterminerUS /huːz/
belonging to which person
From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
woman
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From this reading “Ah! monsieur,” he said, seizing the marquis’s hand, “life has been awful indeed for that poor little woman, so young, so delicate!
wretches
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From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
years
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From this reading After being, by dreadful fatality, separated from the grenadier, whose name was Fleuriot, she was dragged about for two years at the heels of the army, the plaything of a crowd of wretches.
young
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From this reading “Ah! monsieur,” he said, seizing the marquis’s hand, “life has been awful indeed for that poor little woman, so young, so delicate!
