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Excerpt from The Last Sentence, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel
Well, is the poor little beggar to learn Sanskrit or Hebrew first asked the General, who had just driven over from Cottesloe to fetch, his wife. 'the last time I came, your ladyship, they were disputing about when it should begin Greek.' But Cynthia was impervious to sarcasm. 'she certainly will have a taste for music; see how she is listening to that robin,' she said, looking gravely at the small object of the discussion, which lay cradled on its father's left arm, staring solemnly up at the dark cedar boughs, with one mottled fist fumbling at its mouth and the other closed round Cecil's forefinger, while it emitted occasional grunts and gurgles, supposed by its mother to express admiration and joy.
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