Let me tell you, my girl, that I'm swallowing no more of your insults! And if I hear another word from you in disparagement of the Corinthian set it will be very much the worse for you!
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- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: british
- Born: August 16, 1902
- Died: July 4, 1974
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