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The cup of happiness is dashed from Jane Eyre’s lips.
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The people of Lilliput are strangely small, but their ideas are bizarre in a big way.
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The great-grandson of William the Conqueror, whose knights assassinated Thomas Becket and whose family harried him to an early grave.
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Brutus tells Cassius to act while everything is going his way, or be left with nothing but regrets.
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Persian star-gazers hasten to Israel for the birth of a royal heir, but find that King Herod has had his fill of them.
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Young Montague Bertie, Lord Willougby, tended his dying father behind enemy lines.
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