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 1      III| renounce an illusion for such a trifle.~ ~“They do not know that
 2     XIII|      perhaps, have wished her a trifle larger. But she had the
 3     XIII|    disconcerted Mlle. Blanche a trifle; and it was with an air
 4      XVI|  present of Sairmeuse? He was a trifle brusque, I confess, but
 5      XVI|       this hour, usually, but a trifle later.”~ ~“And you receive
 6       XX|       and his herculean form, a trifle bowed by the weight of years,
 7    XXIII|            Because it is a mere trifle, and because I wish to keep
 8    XXVII|     more crimson, and his air a trifle more haughty than usual.~ ~“
 9    XXVII|         think twice, was a mere trifle. But to bring low an illustrious
10    XXXII|      stake, and that the merest trifle might disclose the truth.
11     XXXV|       to conceive, the other, a trifle stupid, to whom it was necessary
12      XLI|        critical that the merest trifle might turn the scale.~ ~
13     XLII|         supposed so.”~ ~“A mere trifle which will cost you no trouble
14   XLVIII|         had often wept for some trifle.~ ~Blanche breathed more
15        L|         or three times, being a trifle indisposed, she had ventured
16     LIII|        at any moment. A word, a trifle, an unlucky chance—she dared