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YES YOU GOT IT! @ethryndal Totally fine that you weren’t tagged. Go crazy girl.
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Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning. Miss Polly did not usually make hurried movements; she specially prided herself on her repose of manner. But to-day she was hurrying–actually hurrying.
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@ethryndal Pollyanna?
Pollyanna? It sounds so familiar! 🙂
@mariposa Right you are!
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As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where there was a den, and laid me down in that place to sleep; and as I slept, I dreamed a dream.
@daeus Correct! *applauds* Your turn!
Okay. Boy, I don’t know hardly first lines off hand. Let me look one up.
“On an exceptionally hot evening early in July, a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.”
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@daeus I’m just going to take a wild guess at The Count of Monte Cristo.
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@dragon-snapper No, but it is a classic.
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I don’t want to say that I looked it up, but…
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@Daeus Is it, by any chance, Crime and Punishment?
*is probably geeking out about something*
Just for future reference, does the line have to be the very first line of the actual book, or can it be from the prologue?
@graciegirl Tada! Okay, your turn.
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