Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. ✨ George Eliot (1…

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Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. ✨ George Eliot (1869). Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life, p.318
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Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. ✨ George Eliot (1869). Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life, p.318

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