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unearths some literary gems.
From Not at Home, by Doris Langley Moore:
***"I told Mrs. Greenway I was prepared to make a considerable reduction to a very careful tenant.""You'll find me madly careful."***"I like housework. I've got quite a 'thing' about it."***"I need reasonably quiet tenants....""We're madly, madly quiet."***The question What Did He See In Her? framed itself in Miss MacFarren's thoughts as forcefully as the title of a novelette.***His voice ran down on the words like a mechanism that slowly whirrs into silence.***"Mr. Dorridge didn't want to see me. (Isn't that a funny name, Dorridge? It rhymes with porridge!)"[N.B. That parenthetical is part of the dialogue--not a JC-E comment. (:v>]***"Well, this time you could knock me down with a feather!" Pearson looked as if she rather wished someone would try the feat so that she might enjoy the relaxation of dropping gently to the floor.***[Re. a pair of china or porcelain cats]Each was wearing round its neck a locket containing the miniature portrait of a dog.***
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