unearths some literary gems.
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Sir Giles found the greatest difficulty in believing his eyes. This was true to the extent that one of his contact-lenses burst from its socket and skittered by way of the opened Book on to the carpet.
[I see this passage as a sort of update of monocles and pincenez that jump out of place with astonishment; the book is from 1967. Interestingly, though, there is a different character in the story (see below) who actually wears a monocle.]
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"I didn't say a thing," complained Humphrey.
"Your face shouted, dear boy."
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Marmaduke Greville-Smith, the only actor in the Club...was popularly supposed to have been elected by mistake for someone else of the same name.
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The drawling voice which, together with his eyeglass, had earned him a quite false reputation for sophisticated mannery-of-the-world.
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