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women in white - elizabeth gaskell

she stood in her white dress against the trees that grew around. her face was flushed in a brilliancy of colour which resembled that of a rose in june; the great, heavy, white flowers drooped on either side of her beautiful head, and if her brown hair was a little disordered, the very disorder only seemed to add a grace.

ruth
elizabeth gaskell

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