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• but Benny would get time off for good behaviour. In hospitals there was no time off for good behaviour.
• It was not Silas’s fault that its steam provided the only uprising element in the picture.
• “One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn’t, of course. It’s a small niggling thing.”
• “Those are the Solomon in all his glory things. The ones that toiled not, neither did they spin.”
• “Of course he was hors-concours in his class, wasn’t he?