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of a lover ensconced in a doorway opposite—which is the
correct form of Costaguana courtship. It was generally be-
lieved that with her foreign upbringing and foreign ideas
the learned and proud Antonia would never marry—un-
less, indeed, she married a foreigner from Europe or North
America, now that Sulaco seemed on the point of being in-
vaded by all the world.
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