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They are certainly _quiet_ enough as fax as retirement goes, and I have often thought I should enjoy the presence of a congenial and intellectual housefellow and boardfellow in this big barn of mine, which is actually going to rack and ruin for want of use.
Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hall Caine 1892
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And now she saw among her own familiar associates one, almost her housefellow, who had been stained with that evil most repugnant to her womanly modesty, that would fain have ignored its existence altogether.
Ruth Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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