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though I shouldn't call him that, he gave me dinner.
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Besides which, he's a decent fellow.
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So it's hands off the Wannop girl.
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The fair one- Miss Valentine Wannop,
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holder of the quarter-mile, half-mile,
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high jump and long jump records for East Sussex,
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and housemaid-typewriter for her mother, the novelist.
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The other one's not local, probably London.
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Never underestimate the Sussex constabulary.
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Oh, and it is generally believed that
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Miss Wannop and I are in cahoots, if not worse.
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Why do you look like that?