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“How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is from you half-and-half sort of people that you get pomposity and vulgarity”
“he talked until their food arrived, littering his chat with references to ninety k and a quarter of a mill, and every sentence was angled, like a mirror, to show him in the best possible light: his...”
“he talked until their food arrived, littering his chat with references to ‘ninety k’ and ‘a quarter of a mill’, and every sentence was angled, like a mirror, to show him in the best possible light:...”
