Book:    Post Captain
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Killick,' he cried, folding and sealing it. 'That's for the post. Is the Doctor ready?'
'Ready and waiting these fourteen minutes,' said Stephen in a loud, sour voice. 'What a wretched tedious slow hand you are with a pen, upon my soul. Scratch-scratch, gasp-gasp. You might have written the Iliad in half the time, and a commentary upon it, too.

( Patrick O'Brian )
[ Post Captain ]
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