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 1 Note1         |       Maurus Jókai is now sixty-six years of age, having been born
 2 Note1         |            profession but at twelve years of age the desire to write
 3     I,      IV|            We have been married six years, so christening has been
 4     I,    VIII|            went at once. It was ten years since I had seen him last.
 5     I,    VIII|         once, although the last ten years had considerably changed
 6     I,    VIII|         just the same as he did ten years ago; not altered in the
 7     I,    VIII|            bit worse than I was ten years ago, and far better than
 8     I,    VIII|             I have known these four years that I am to die at the
 9     I,    VIII|           was, as I said, just four years ago, on my ninety-third
10     I,    VIII|            There are only five more years for you in store, and then
11     I,      IX|           me! For a great number of years I have lived here on this
12     I,      IX|           to the Personal. For many years I did not seem to care about
13     I,      IX|          abode for the last seventy years and more. This room of itself
14     I,      IX|           to farmers for many, many years, almost a century, and it
15     I,      IX|             during the last seventy years. They represent a fortune
16     I,      IX|            feebler than you did ten years ago, and there is no positive
17     I,      IX|             should not live for ten years longer, or even more, provided
18     I,      IX|             may hope to see you ten years hence as hearty as you are
19     I,      IX|             now, or as you were ten years ago. For you are in perfect
20     I,       X|             very period when, after years of degradation and suffering,
21     I,       X|             Bohemians, who for many years had filled all the public
22     I,       X|      counties was begun. For twenty years constitutional life in Hungary
23     I,      XI|            on the cheek. It is many years since that night, but many
24     I,     XII|            old man had known me for years, and was very faithful to
25    II,       I|             a little girl of twelve years, but a grown-up young lady,
26    II,      II| miracle-working virgin, who had for years and years befooled and deceived
27    II,      II|       virgin, who had for years and years befooled and deceived aged
28    II,      IV|         liberty, and for the coming years I could get it only as a
29    II,      IV|            ever.~ ~"For twenty-five years the poor victim of the fair
30    II,      IV|         thrown over him. After some years he found a good, pure, and
31    II,      IV|           not come. For twenty-five years he dragged these heavy chains
32    II,      IV|            to play the Tantalus for years, and run the risk of having
33    II,    XIII|             not seen each other for years, and the last three months
34    II,    XIII|       outward appearance than whole years at home. "Go on, comrade,"
35    II,     XVI|             I had experienced a few years of tedious inaction at Mainz
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