unearths some literary gems.
"Greg, your example would corrupt an archangel."
"Which, as you are emphatically no angel, arch or otherwise, is irrelevant."
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"Hargest had a special 'thing' about Eurovision."
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He wore a fine snow-white dragoon's moustache, and his eyebrows twisted upwards as though in sympathy.
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He would arrange a debate on The Housewife and her Hat between the editor of a woman's magazine and the most recently wedded viscountess.
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[Water Metaphorically Flowing under Specific Bridges dept.]
Since those days a lot of water had flowed under the bridges of Seine and Thames.
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"Grown men really shouldn't be able to quarrel over dancing-girl troupes, or even over serious subjects like Greek Drama or Quiz Games."
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Kate received him with enthusiasm tempered only by the requirements of make-up removal.
"I'm glad you're back," she said through a flurry of Kleenex.
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"If Jane Hargest isn't as two-faced as they come, I'll eat the sort of hat Humphrey can't afford to buy me."
[I just checked the archives, and, indeed, the two previous twists on hat-eating also came from Val Gielgud.]
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