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" To sum up her character with the brevity here required — she was a woman of a masculine understanding and conduct; proud, furious, selfish, and unfeeling. She was a builder, a buyer and seller of estates, a moneylender, a farmer, and a merchant of lead,... "
A collection of fragments illustrative of the history and antiquities of Derby - Σελίδα 343
των Robert Simpson - 1826
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