unearths some literary gems.
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Miss Kettering paused for breath and grammatical orientation.
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"I've got a photographic memory [....] I'm famous for it. They call me What's-his-name of the Metropolitan Police."
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Miss Kettering might be a woman of rare understanding but he wasn't going to have her galloping her hobby-horses round his bedroom.
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He was trying to block out the whole [embarrassing] scene by selecting the eight gramophone records he would take with him on a desert island, should he ever be lucky enough to be cast away on one.
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"Remember what happened the last time you tried to play Little Miss Philanthropy-Incorporated."
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"I can't abide tea that hasn't got the strength to crawl out of the spout."
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Dover, as was only to be expected, made the worst of a bad job.
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