unearths some literary gems.
From Good Gracious, Annabelle by Clare Kummer:
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"And don't get a gardener that looks like Bernard Shaw."
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ETHEL: Here, let me read it. [...] "I am returning the portrait of my husband--I would not have such a looking thing in the house--"
JENNINGS: But she has him in the house.
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ANNABELLE: How did it ever get to be ten o'clock?
LOTTIE: Well, it does, you know, just about this time every morning.
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LOTTIE: Do you believe in zoology? What the stars tell?
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[Jennings is trying to recite his poetry to Gwendolyn, but Lottie is a distraction.]
JENNINGS
Dawn!
Changing to gold and blue--
Ever changing, like a dancer--
On whom the lights are thrown.
Dawn with wistful shadows---- [That's a double em dash there, I guess to add the dash of interruption to the end-of-line dash.]
LOTTIE
Dawn with whiskers!
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ANNABELLE: Didn't think you would mind. I thought you were asleep.
WIMBLEDON: I mind things in my sleep.
