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What does she dread, this charming creature?  Being merely a bit part in another’s tale.

Jonathan Steed,  Down Under.

Helen claimed—rather too proudly—that she had never thought in words.

Pryce Cummings,  Rattle Box.

“It’s not a mystery, Beth.  Not at all.  And it is not amazing.  Not.  At.  All.”

Quentin Drabb,  Ebenezer’s Untold Tales.

“It was infant mortality, Mr. Plowman.  I assure you.”

“At age thirty-six?”

“Yes, sir.”

Lana Dowling,  The Mystery of the Dull Parcels.