"Лорд Дансени. The Lost Silk Hat (Потерянная шелковая шляпа) (англ.)" - читать интересную книгу автора

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Well, that seems all right.
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That's right, then you'll run up and get it?
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Seems all right to me and seems all right to you. But
it's the police what you and I have got to think of.
Will it seem all right to them?
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Oh, for heaven's sake --
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Ah!
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What a hopeless fool you are.
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Ah!
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Look here.
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Ah, I got you there, mister.
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Look here, for goodness sake don't go.
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Ah! {Exit}

{Enter the Clerk}
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Excuse me, sir. Excuse me asking you, but, as you see,
I am without a hat. I shall be extraordinarily obliged
to you if you would be so very good as to get it for
me. Pretend you have come to wind the clocks, you
know. I left it in the drawing-room of this house,
half under the long sofa, the far end.
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Oh, er -- all right, only --
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Thanks so much, I am immensely indebted to you. Just
say you've come to wind the clocks, you know.
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I -- er -- don't think I'm very good at winding clocks,
you know.
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Oh, that's all right, just stand in front of the clock
and fool about with it. That's all they ever do. I
must warn you there's a lady in the room.
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Oh!
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But that's all right, you know. Just walk past up to
the clock.