Walking on eggshells (1860)

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More eggshells. I guess it's not American.


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Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 [Author Page]
The Woman in White (1860)  1515Kb
The Woman in White. By Wilkie Collins ... In Three Volumes. New Edition   [Durable URL for this text]
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VOL. II.   [Durable URL for this text]
THE STORY CONTINUED BY MARIAN HALCOMBE.   [Durable URL for this text]
IX.   [Durable URL for this text]
...me a hundred times---I walk, in your English phrase, upon egg-shells! And this grand creature---I drink her health in my sugar...