It must have had something to do with that here he could drink chocolate. Moreover, he could move about, talk to people, and attend to what he found interesting.
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Chocolaffice.
Blumanie.
He was gathering a bouquet to award to his lady love whenever she showed up. The fundamental laws of the universe governing young men waiting for young ladies applied here as everywhere else, and consequently it was becoming a very large arrangement.
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Pandeblenkung.
Death and disease only made her more amorous — eager to forget the bad parts of life and to enjoy good flesh while it lasted.
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CastleGTD
In a continent that was now freckled with more or less embarrassing knock-offs of Versailles, the Leine Schloß was Proud to be Dowdy. [...]
But Sophie liked it that way. Versailles was a penitentiary for every person of consequence in France, and needed to be large. Herrenhausen was a place for getting things done, and needed to be small and tidy.
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Seltspräch.
On an arbitrary numerical scale of conversational oddness, ranging from one to ten, with ten being the oddest conversation I’ve ever had, and seven being the oddest conversation I have in a typical day, this rates no better than five.
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