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1     XVII|       give for her visit, and to gain time she pretended to be
2      XIX| advantage of this opportunity to gain his son’s consent to an
3     XXIV|     falsehoods in his anxiety to gain followers.~ ~Mme. d’Escorval
4    XXVII|       The old scoundrel began to gain more confidence.~ ~“First,”
5     XXIX|          need not. I know how to gain his consent. Besides, what
6     XXXI|      feet under ground, I should gain the reward.”~ ~The appellation
7     XXXI| difficult it would be for him to gain the frontier without falling
8     XLIX|        now, was only striving to gain time, knowing full well