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Book 1: Chapter I

Above the Forties farther out from the fashionable center of the city.

Mr. Luther Burbank's...prodigies students of Luther Burbank (1849–1926), an American plant breeder and horticulturist.

chemisette a detachable shirt front formerly worn by women to fill in the neckline of a dress.

Josephine look a gown in the style of the first French Empire (1804–1815) named after Napoleon's wife, Josephine, empress of France (1804–1809); with a short waist, decollette bodice, flowing skirt, and short, puffed sleeves.

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