Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye an…

Anthony Trollope
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Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark. ✨ Anthony Trollope (1862). Orley farm, p.141
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Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark. ✨ Anthony Trollope (1862). Orley farm, p.141

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