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You will do well to take advantage of Madame's short residence to get up your French a little... You will be glad of this, my dear, when you have reached France, where you will find they speak nothing else.

You will do well to take advantage of Madame's short residence to get up your French a little... You will be glad of this, my dear, when you have reached France, where you will find they speak nothing else.

Approximate author period: c. 1843 AD · industrial

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J. Sheridan Le Fanu
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Approximate author period: c. 1843 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period evidence for Sheridan Le Fanu: life dates 1814 to 1873. Wikidata Q326467, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q326467 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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