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| Personal Information | collapsing as if in a headlong fall, pressing herself on the ground, she withered away to her very marrow; her tongue was silent, her lips mute, and all vital signs disappeared as if she were dead. After a period of time she awakened as if from sleep, drawing long sighs from the depths of her breast.... |
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...uelut in praecipitium delapsa, se solo premens, inmensi maeroris molestia medullitus emarcuit, lingua siluit, labrum obmutuit, omnique uiuali uigore uelut exanimis euanuit. Post uero interuentum temporis, ceu somno expergefacta, imis de pectoris fibri |
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collapsing as if in a headlong fall, pressing herself on the ground, she withered away to her very marrow; her tongue was silent, her lips mute, and all vital signs disappeared as if she were dead. After a period of time she awakened as if from sleep, drawing long sighs from the depths of her breast....