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 1   Pre|           was written nearly fifty years ago. On its first appearance,
 2    II|          about during the next few years he himself probably could
 3    II|          told you; but when, a few years later, we come across him
 4    II|          gentlemen, who for eighty years have regarded matrimony
 5    II|           inclination which, after years and years, suddenly springs
 6    II| inclination which, after years and years, suddenly springs into life
 7    II|           Hungary falling in a few years into the hands of a foreign
 8   III|     fluently?"~ ~"For the last six years I have remained the Whitsun
 9   III|          the avenger of their long years of contumely round the room,
10    IV|          the same dress for twelve years at a stretch, and had nothing
11    IV|      interest - the fruits of many years[Pg 92] of pinching and sparing -
12    IV|             she was already twelve years old, and she promised to
13    IV|          well standing up. For two years we have not seen each other.
14    IV|         one daughter who is twelve years old; in a short time she
15    IV|     collapsed in a corner.~ ~A few years sooner a moderate dose of
16    IV|         that he had emigrated; and years afterwards distant travellers
17     V|         TEMPTER IN CHURCH.~ ~Three years had passed since Fanny went
18     V|           Aunt Teresa. Those three years had a great influence upon
19     V|        anxieties of the last three years, for Fanny was now saved,
20     V|          married at all. For forty years she had been growing old
21     V|       remained for five-and-twenty years. Boltay meanwhile had become
22     V|         mournful countenance, "ten years ago I had a sweetheart,
23     V|            singing.~ ~"A couple of years will make a thorough artiste
24    VI|          the labours of these many years all in ruins, and in the
25    VI|            in the world these nine years without being able to find
26    VI|          Yes, I did."~ ~"And three years ago you met three Hungarian
27   VII|        which, for a long series of years, had been disturbed by nobody
28   VII|      Forest! Why, it is now twelve years since I have seen any accounts
29   VII|           matron, well advanced in years, who acts the young missies.
30   VII|           it explained, was a five years' student (counting not from
31   VII|           the selfsame verses nine years running.[Pg 172]~ ~"And
32   VII|           öszibaraczk liqueur, ten years old, with wheat-bread sippets,
33   VII|            carefully cherished for years and years.~ ~On the fourth
34   VII|            cherished for years and years.~ ~On the fourth day, of
35  VIII|           consort, I say. For many years the world has known me under
36  VIII|            later and more rigorous years of her life have only suppressed,
37    IX|          God grant thee many, many years upon earth, and, after this
38    IX|            better. For four mortal years I have stood the shame of
39    IX|           way, was a good score of years younger than himself - to
40    IX|            ten, twenty, even fifty years ago, beginning from births
41    IX|          God preserve him for many years to come! And yet I fear
42    IX|           your beauty last? In ten years' time it will be gone. Nay,
43    IX|           even last so long as ten years if you continue to live
44    IX|           Why, he had grown twenty years younger at the very least!
45    IX|        left behind, eh?"~ ~"Twenty years of your age, my honoured
46    XI|            old within the last two years."~ ~"Poor lady!" sighed
47  XIII|        wife he seemed to be twenty years younger, and his face beamed
48    XV|           changed. He looks twenty years younger; one scarcely recognizes
49    XX|         carried about with her for years. And when he thought on
50   XXI|           have grown in his latter years,' his descendants will one