["As when an apple, sent by a lover secretly to his mistress, falls fr… — Essays
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["As when an apple, sent by a lover secretly to his mistress, falls from the chaste virgin's bosom, where she had quite forgotten it; when, starting at her mother's coming in, it is shaken out and rolls over the floor before her eyes, a conscious blush covers her face." --Catullus, lxv. 19.]
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