“I am sentimental,’ she said. ‘I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.”

Source: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

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Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor 1899–1977

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