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ROMEO AND JULIET.
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Five minutes later the butter was still spluttering, but the pigeon sang no longer.

Romeo and Juliet grilled their clock.

“He had a nice voice,” said Juliet, sitting down to table.

“He is very tender,” said Rodolphe, carving his alarum, nicely browned.

The two lovers looked at one another, and each surprised a tear in the other’s eye.

Hypocrites, it was the onions that made them weep.

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