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Over on LJ, comments on very old entries containing (thankfully non-functioning, they use brackets) links to all sorts of dubious sales sites pop up fairly often. A lot are automatically marked as spam, and my journal screens anonymous comments, anyway. This time, though, a bit of the spam-rambling caught my attention, and I decided to dissect the entry. Turns out to be bits of different books, all strung together.

The poem really caught my eye, I've bolded it. The places they had randomly stuffed links are noted, for humor's sake, but the links are gone. I've also separated the lines, it was originally a very un-punctuated bit of run-on. I wonder what program they have that runs around the internet scooping up random bits of books?

But when he left, he was allowed by each lady to take her hand, and to make his adieux as gentlemen do who have been graciously entertained!
(Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope)

Yes; he shook hands with them, and was curtseyed out courteously, the buttoned page opening the door, as he would have done for the best canon of them all
(Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope)

Though they did not use quite such strong language as Dr Grantly had done, they felt as much [ugg boots for sale] personal aversion, and were quite as well aware as he was that there would be a battle to be fought, and that there was hardly room for Proudieism in Barchester as long as Grantlyism was predominant
(Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope)

I knew you would be annoyed
(Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope - and many others)

I felt grieved to think that he had ceased to love us and wanted to show him my grief
(Boyhood: The Second Part of Tolstoy's Autobiographical Work)

But had he told his [ugg outlet online] master? What part was he playing in all this: was he an accomplice or not? Was the game, then, up?
(Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne)

Fix spent several hours turning these things over in his mind, [ugg boots for sale] sometimes thinking that all was lost, then persuading himself that Fogg was ignorant of his presence, and then undecided what course it was best to take
(Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne)

There were wheels within wheels in this affair
(Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope)

Holmes rose from his chair
"'Well, what then?' he asked
If she had been willing to help justice she would probably have communicated with the police already
(Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)

There is a twittering up in the branches,
A chirp and a lilt,
And crimson atilt on a swaying twig
(Men, Women, and Ghosts, Amy Lowell)

However, after a long glare of rage he turned upon his heel and walked out of the room
(Adventure of the Blanched Soldier, Sherlock Holmes)

But what has this man to do with the matter?
(The disappearance of Lady Francis Carfax)

"This is my old friend and associate, [url]
(Sherlock Holmes)

Dr Lear, the author of "The Yongi Bongi Bo," an the lay of the "Jumblies"
(Letters to Dead Authors - Edgar Allan Poe)

You make um Jessie, five sticks tobacco along you," he said
(Adventure, Jack London)

But I want you, as a final item of man-talk, to remember, from time to time, that I love you, and that it will be the dearest day of my life when you consent to marry me
(Adventure, Jack London)