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 1 1 | splendid foulness, and if more excuse were needed, they had the
 2 1 |      were needed, they had the excuse that they had merely come
 3 2 |     his only pretext, his only excuse, for living. He made no
 4 4 |        me: ~"Sir, I beg you to excuse my visit and my costume;
 5 4 |       in it the reason and the excuse for what has passed between
 6 4 |        find in reading it some excuse for the past. I, for my
 7 5 |    lived a bit free, if you'll excuse my saying so. Poor lady,
 8 12|       time, for a rest, for an excuse, for a consolation, like
 9 14|   prepared to believe whatever excuse she made. ~Joseph returned. ~"
10 15|      distraction and their one excuse. I gave myself to you sooner
11 22|        to my father was not an excuse for a day off. Perhaps Prudence
12 25|     the following day, on some excuse or other, and to see your
13 25|       woman, and that whatever excuse I gave for our liaison,