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books just came, Blake's, and the Peter Rabbit books etc.  "Oh! Thats nothing! (in disgust) those Peter Rabbit books!  Why now Tasha's [[squiggle]] 
Wonder fool "Why my children won't listen to those Peter Rabbit books the writing is just trash!  And that book about his - "Why I exclaimed, "I heard it first at your Reading club, just a bit of it & ran & bought it!!  "Oh I can't bear it - what a poor person she was, and such a [[underlined]] horrid family -" [[/underlined]]
She wasn't a bit interested in the Blake book - no children would like it.
And there she sat, just back from the Brazilian Ambassador's tea party.  Elegantly attired and a huge beribboned bouquet of