There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the cat — Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
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There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.

— Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
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