Word: vanessa
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...human centre of Swift's life-his relations with "Stella"' and "Vanessa"'- has always been a mystery, is not cleared up by Van Doren. Two women were in love with Swift all their lives; he married nobody. Van Doren states the difficulties, then begs the question. "He may have been impotent, gossip suggests . . . . he may have had syphilis . . . he may . . . have married Stella privately. . . . But all these arguments ... are ... as good as another. Not one of them is as simple and sufficient as the conclusion that Swift . . . was only, in marriage as in other matters, extraordinary...
...Officials of the British embassy," it stated, "believe that the young woman is the former Vanessa Levy, daughter of Sir Benjamin Levy, who vanished from London shortly after her marriage to Lord St. Anstell recently. Their convictions have been reinforced by the finding in her possession of a vanity case which bears the initials...
...order to arrive at a fair conclusion it is necessary that this Vanessa be as thorough as possible. Also it is very urgent that it be completed at once...