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unearths some literary gems.
From The Old Man in the Corner, by Baroness Orczy:
***She had been present at the last Marlborough House garden party—in the cloak-room, that is to say, where she caught sight of Lady Thingummy's hat, Miss What-you-may-call's sunshade, and of various other things modistical or fashionable.***"Exactly," he said, while he leant forward excitedly, for all the world like a Jack-in-the-box let loose.***
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