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females possess none of those qualities and graces which render 

 women in Europe so charming. 



Truly, even in the wildest regions of the earth, it would be 

 difficult to find a spot still less adapted to the moral and 

 intellectual improvement of its inhabitants than a coral island, 

 despite its cloudless sky, its waving palm trees, its azure 

 lagoon, and the magnificence of the sea hurling its snow-white 

 breakers against the reef. 



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