...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbe…

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...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all. ✨ Wilkie Collins (2016). The Woman in White, p.53, Wilkie Collins
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...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all. ✨ Wilkie Collins (2016). The Woman in White, p.53, Wilkie Collins

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