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  1. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Man with Two Left Feet and

    Here, you! The boss wants you. Buck up!' Mr Stafford was talking into the telephone. He replaced the receiver asHenry entered. 'Oh, Rice, here's a woman wants her husband shadowed while he's on the road. He's an actor. I'm sending you. Go to this address, and get photographs and all particulars. You'll have to catch the eleven o'clock train on Friday.' 'Yes, sir.' 'He's in "The Girl
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  2. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Man with Two Left Feet and

    He proposed to Alice Weston. She refused him. 'It's not because I'm not fond of you. I think you're the nicest man I ever met.' A good deal of assiduous attention had enabled Henry to win this place in her affections. He had worked patiently and well before actually putting his fortune to the test. 'I'd marry you tomorrow if things were different. But I'm on the stage, and I mean to stick there. Most of the girls want to get off it, but not me. And one thing I'll never do is marry someone who isn't in the profession. My sister Genevieve did, and look what happened to her. She married a commercial traveller, and take it from me he travelled.
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  3. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Man with Two Left Feet and

    No burglar wastes his time burgling authors.
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  4. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Man with Two Left Feet and

    I simply said he was a detective, and let it go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth. At Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, in the Strand,
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  5. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Man with Two Left Feet and

    He was really only a sort of detective, a species"
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  6. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Man with Two Left Feet and

    He had never measured a footprint in his life, and what he did not know about bloodstains would have filled a library.
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  7. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Man with Two Left Feet and

    It sometimes seems to me that in this life we've all got to have trouble sooner or later, and some of us gets it bit by bit, spread out thin, so to speak, and a few of us gets it in a lump-biff!
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  8. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Man with Two Left Feet and

    Most of the Marois Bay scenery is simply made as a setting for the nursing of a wounded heart. The cliffs are a sombre indigo, sinister and forbidding; and even on the finest days the sea has a curious sullen look. You have only to get away from the crowd near the bathing-machines and reach one of these small coves and get your book against a rock and your pipe well alight, and you can simply wallow in misery. I have done it myself.
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  9. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Man with Two Left Feet and

    A detective is only human. The less of a detective, the more human he is. Henry was not much of a detective, and his human
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  10. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Man with Two Left Feet and

    it go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He was really only a sort of detective, a species of sleuth. At Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, in the Strand, where he was employed, they did not require
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  11. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Man with Two Left Feet and

    but the unsensational doings of a quite commonplace young
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  12. P.G. Wodehouse _ The Man with Two Left Feet and

    It would seem to be an inexorable law of Nature that no man shall shine at both ends. If he has a high forehead and a thirst for wisdom, his fox-trotting {if any} shall be as the staggerings of the drunken; while, if he is a good dancer, he is nearly always petrified from the ears upward.
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