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#102989 05/09/03 07:14 PM
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From Henry James, "Portrait of a Lady":
" She detested bread-sauce, which, as she said, looked like a poultice and tasted like soap"
I wonder what "bread-sauce" is.


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Does that come with a box of kleenex?



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