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‘I know you are regrettingme—’

‘What I a you overyou back to Poppy and Janet so you could travel to England in a moreproper manner I should have listened to Captain Meacham instead of you’

‘He doesn’t appear to er’

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‘I do not encourage him! And he does not moon’

‘Fine Drool’

‘Captain Meacham’s manners are impeccable As opposed to yours, Lord Friday-Faced-Fussock’

‘If you are going to resort to childish na, try for accuracy rather than alliteration Fussock means a lazy woman’

‘It does? That wasn’t at all the ie I had in my mind’