In His Novel, Democracy, HENRY ADAMS Reveals Her Secret

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Victoria Dare

was one of those

young persons

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who seem to have

no object in life,

and while apparently

devoted to men,

care nothing about them

but find happiness

only in violating rules.

 

She made no parade of

whatever virtues she had

and her chief pleasure

was to make fun of

all the world

and herself.

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HENRY ADAMS

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