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unearths some literary gems.
From Wodehouse's Spring Fever:***"Oh, very well, very well. Here is five pounds.""Couldn't you make it ten?""No, I could not make it ten," said Lady Adela, with the testiness of a conjurer asked to do too difficult a trick.***[Gratuitously Quantifying Things dept.]“Don’t you see what a wonderful opportunity this will be for you to become hep to my hidden depths?”“You haven’t any.”“I have, too. Dozens.”**[Nonsense dept.]Nobody, of course, who enjoyed the pleasure of intimacy with him, expected him to talk anything but nonsense, but he need not, she felt, have descended to such utter nonsense, as that of which he had been guilty last night.
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