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- From: miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
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- Subject: First!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.153903.46604@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 21:39:03 GMT
- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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- Plum's characters occasionally got off ripping good lines, good enough
- to copy out and put in your commonplace book. Quiz (to get us
- started):
-
- The following gems were both uttered by the same character in the same
- story: name the character and the story:
-
- (a) So you put the whole binge up to Jeeves and see if he can't
- scare up a happy ending somehow. Tell him my future is in his
- hands, and that, if the wedding bells ring out, he can rely on
- me, even unto half my kingdom. Well, call it ten quid.
-
- "What! I'm hanged if I do!"
- "And you call yourself a pal of mine!"
- "Yes, I know; but there are limits."
- "Bertie," said *****, reproachfully, "I saved your life once."
- "When?"
- (b) "Didn't I? It must have been some other fellow then..."
-
- -Ken
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