unearths some literary gems.
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Plumtree was waiting beside the telephone, watching it in awe, as though it might explode or speak loud and oracularly at any moment.
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Cromwell knew from the way Littlejohn smoked his pipe that the Superintendent was amused. It sagged in the corner of his mouth and, instead of puffing it, he gently blew wisps of smoke through the bowl.
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