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Clarissa was an exceptionally refined
and genteel woman in all respects save the onset of supper,
when her manner would become quite wanton and distinctly
earthy.
Such was the ferocity of her attacks on the nightly feast,
which bordered on the lascivious, that her family banished
her to the servants kitchen where all would flee, save for
Roland the chauffeur who watched her performances with keen
interest, attending to her dress afterwards with a damp and
furtive sponge.
