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  1. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Gem Collector

    He lit another cigar, and began to brood over the folly of mankind.
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  2. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Gem Collector

    Brainy badinage of that sort is exchanged every day in the best society. You should hear dukes and earls! The wit! the esprit! The flow of soul!
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  3. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Gem Collector

    I see. Before you fell a victim to the feverish desire for reckless speculation which is so marked a characteristic of the American business man, what?
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  4. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Gem Collector

    As Nebuchadnezzar is reported to have said of his vegetarian diet, it may have been wholesome, but it was not good.
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  5. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Gem Collector

    By the way, one generally shakes hands in the smartest circles. Yours seem to be down there somewhere. Might I trouble you? Right. Got it? Thanks!
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  6. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Gem Collector

    I say," said Jimmy, as they moved away, "who is that fellow Wesson?" "Oh, a man," said Molly vaguely. "There's no need to be fulsome," said Jimmy. "He can't hear.
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  7. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Gem Collector

    We are going to do a play, and we want another man. The man who was going to play one of the parts has had to go back to London." "Poor devil! Fancy having to leave a place like this and go back to that dingy, overrated town.
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  8. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Gem Collector

    Nobody is at his best in the matter of explanations if a lady whom he knows to be possessed of a firm belief in the incurable weakness of his intellect is looking fixedly at him during the recital.
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  9. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Gem Collector

    Lady Blunt had come up, flushed and triumphant, having left the solitary porter a demoralized wreck.
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  10. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Gem Collector

    Sir Thomas extended three fingers. Jimmy extended two, and the handshake was not a success.
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  11. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Gem Collector

    Wait till you see her. Sort of woman who makes you feel that your hands are the color of a frightful tomato and the size of a billiard table, if you know what I mean.
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  12. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Gem Collector

    Pat, you're absurd," laughed Lady Jane. "I won't have you littering up the house with great, clumsy detectives. You must remember that you aren't in horrid New York now, where everybody you meet wants to rob you. Who is it that you suspect? Who is the-what is the word you're so fond of? Crook. That's it. Who is the crook?
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