You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth s…

Thomas Hardy
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You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics), p.14, Diversion Books
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You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then. ✨ Thomas Hardy (2016). Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Diversion Classics), p.14, Diversion Books

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