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I TURNED TOWARDS THE booking-office on the main departure platform. As I went, the chief platform inspector, George Bellingham, with whom I had some acquaintance, came out of his office. I stopped him.
'Mr. Bellingham, will you be so good as to step with me to the booking-office, and instruct the clerk in charge to answer one or two questions which I wish to put to him. I will explain to you afterwards.'

He commenced by making, in the quietest and most courteous manner, sarcastic comments on the speeches and methods of Trumperton and his friends which tickled the House amazingly. but he did not make the mistake of pushing his personalities too far. To a speaker of a certain sort nothing is easier than to sting to madness. If he likes, his every word is barbed. Wounds so given fester; they are not easily forgiven.

Lol Miss Coleman is hilarious

“What the deuce?” “How the deuce?” Haha we should bring deuce back.

This book is so unsuspectingly amazing

Miss Grayling is so annoying. I thought I would prefer her to Marjorie, but Miss Grayling gets so annoyed with him when he takes her at face value and he so clearly has no clue she is sending out romantic hints. I find her coyness and her fury at his cluelessness to be mean and abrasive.