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Raymond Chandler _ Trouble Is My Business
On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.
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Raymond Chandler _ Trouble Is My Business
She didn't look hard, but she looked as if she had heard all the answers and remembered the ones she thought she might be able to use sometime.
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Raymond Chandler _ Trouble Is My Business
She was a tall, seedy, sad-eyed blonde who had once been a policewoman and had lost her job when she married a cheap little check bouncer named Johnny Horne, to reform him. She hadn't reformed him, but she was waiting for him to come out so she could try again.
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Raymond Chandler _ Trouble Is My Business
I called him up from a phone booth. The voice that answered was fat. It wheezed softly, like the voice of a man who had just won a pie-eating contest.
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Raymond Chandler _ Trouble Is My Business
Trouble is my business," I said. "How else would I make a nickel?
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Raymond Chandler _ Trouble Is My Business
I don't like drunks in the first place and in the second place I don't like them getting drunk in here, and in the third place I don't like them in the first place.
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Raymond Chandler _ Trouble Is My Business
You're a full portion of what I don't like,' she said. 'Get out of my way.' I didn't move. She didn't move. We were both sitting down – and not even close to each other.
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Raymond Chandler _ Trouble Is My Business
I wasn't doing any work that day, just catching up on my foot-dangling.
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Raymond Chandler _ Trouble Is My Business
The kid said: "I don't like drunks in the first place and in the second place I don't like them getting drunk in here, and in the third place I don't like them in the first place.
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Raymond Chandler _ Trouble Is My Business
A doorman opened the door for me and I went in. The lobby was not quite as big as the Yankee Stadium. It was floored with a pale blue carpet with sponge rubber underneath. It was so soft it made me want to lie down and roll.
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Raymond Chandler _ Trouble Is My Business
He opened the rear door and I got in and sank down into the cushions and George slid under the wheel and started the big car. It moved away from the curb and around the corner with as much noise as a bill makes in a wallet."
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Raymond Chandler _ Trouble Is My Business
She was sitting behind a black glass desk that looked like Napoleon's tomb and she was smoking a cigarette in a black holder that was not quite as long as a rolled umbrella.
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