suicide belt

This bauble, said he, shewing me an elegant sprig of diamonds, is an aigret, sent in last week by a lady of quality, who has ever since kept home with her head muffled up in a double clout for a pretended fit of the tooth-ache.

She falls heavily onto her side, tugs a bodypillow up under her, throws a leg over it.

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