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Papa had always told Justine that guns had a remarkable capacity to focus the mind. She couldn__ say with any confidence that her actions had cleared the minds of the drunken louts before her, but she__ sharpened their attention. They gaped at her, slack-mouth and stupefied, trying to make sense of what their bleary eyes told them.
Vanessa Kelly Confessions of a Royal Bridegroom
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Papa had always told Justine that guns had a remarkable capacity to focus the mind. She couldn__ say with any confidence that her actions had cleared the minds of the drunken louts before her, but she__ sharpened their attention. They gaped at her, slack-mouth and stupefied, trying to make sense of what their bleary eyes told them.

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