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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: by a jelly-fish or something. I've heard- "
I cut her short.
"Mermaid dear, I'm as sane as you are, only- "
"Only what?"
"Everybody's doing it"- she recoiled- "doing it! Listen to me.
True, that is your chemise. True, that out there is my hat-
there it is. But here is Berry's shirt, and miles out there is
Daphne's straw hat. If I'd stayed long enough, I've no doubt I
should have seen Jonah's trousers and Jill's chemisette, which
means or mean- whichever you like- that ...
Hurriedly I explained, and then fell again into uproarious
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