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Afternoon Quote by Ellen Glasgow

“It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.” quote by Ellen Glasgow — Download Open image

“It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.”

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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

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