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we'll have no need to investigate them.
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You have always taken such a lively,
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even prosecutorial interest in my household accounts.
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Your household accounts have always been so interesting.
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Yes, thank you, it's true,
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the miracles I have wrought out of fertilizer bills and cutlery invoices,
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but I had to!
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Four years ago, when the president and I arrived,
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this was pure pigsty.
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Tobacco stains in the turkey carpets.
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Mushrooms, green as the moon, sprouting from the ceilings!
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And a pauper's pittance allotted for improvements.