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May I show you the house?
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When this opera was built
there were only a few huts here.
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The building was practically in the jungle.
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Prices are ten times higher here
than in New York.
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There are palaces being built with
tiles from Delft and Florentine marble.
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And lquitos is catching up.
It's still a filthy frontier town. . .
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. . .but the rubber business is growing
by leaps and bounds.
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The better-off citizens in Manaus,
if I may put it like that. . .
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. . .send their laundry to Lisbon. . .
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. . .because the water in the Amazon
is felt to be impure.