Russian Grand Priory

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    “Annie: Dances like Pavaliver, that child.
    George Grainger: Dances like who?
    Annie: Pavaliver—the Russian dancer. Don’t be so ignorant.”
    —Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935)

    “One of my playmates, who was apprenticed to a printer, and was somewhat of a wag, asked his master one afternoon if he might go a-fishing, and his master consented. He was gone three months. When he came back, he said that he had been to the Grand Banks, and went to setting type again as if only an afternoon had intervened.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Blessing turned to blasphemies,
    Holy deeds to despites.

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    Heaven turned is to hell,
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    Walsingham, Oh farewell!”
    —Unknown. A Lament for the Priory of Walsingham (l. 39–44)