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1) The mood is one of loss and eventual joy of being alive.
2) <u>Charred sticks chewed by flame, & Weeping sooty tears, but alive, & Oh, alive!.</u>
<span>"In the 1840s the Duchess of Bedford introduces the ritual of afternoon tea, because by this time dinner had become so late, seven-thirty to eight o'clock . . ."</span>
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