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| Oh Fairy! Florence was speaking to you |
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| I'm sorry, Florence. I was watching the fireflies. What did you say? |
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| I said, can you see if they've left yet? |
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| I wish I'd been born a cat so I could see in the dark |
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| All right, my statistical friend. My curiosity is good for ten minutes more. |
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| I wonder what she is like? Miss Willie says they are one of the wealthiest families in America |
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| Oh, that's bad. She'll have an expensive camera she can't work. Or rave about an artist I never heard of. |
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| Oh-cynic! Has money spoiled me? |
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| Do you have money, Fairy? |
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| Please don't play gypsy music, Hannibal. It frighten me |
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| Terrifies me. I was stolen by gypsies when I was a child and rescued just as they were about to dye my skin with walnut juice. Well, I was |
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| I hope she likes music. Maybe she plays some instrument herself. The harp! Oh-I hope she plays a harp. All my life-...I'm sorry, Hannibal go ahead....I was raised on a harp. My father-Like an angel |
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| Fairy-get the book for Jeff so we can listen to Hannibal |
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| Never mind, Fairy, I can get it |
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| No, Jeffrey, climbing on chairs is women's work. Men have mountains. Which book did you want? |
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| People give the strangest books to this library. I couldn't get into "Forbidden Tibet." |
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| It's amazing what standing above people does. Do you know, I feel smarter than anybody in the whole world. |
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| Books are in my blood. My mother invented the filing system at the New York Library. She was "Queen of Cross-Index." |
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| I'll get Jeff's book, Fairy |
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| No, no, no, no. Musicians shouldn't work |
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| Be careful, Fairy-don't get dust in your eyes |
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| Wouldn't you like "Animal Husbandry"? I can reach that. |
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| Lights! Turn the lights back on! |
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| It's unfair to make the rest of us suffer to get you to heaven, Mrs. Paddy |
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| Other people like electricity |
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| Now you sit at your easel like a good girl. And leave the lights alone |
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| I must say you startled us, Miss Willie. We thought you were in the front office. |
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| For the love of Pete, Fairy, what are you up to? |
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| I was just trying to get a book for Jeffrey |
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| I couldn't quite reach it. |
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| I certainly didn't mean to cause all this commotion. Forget it |
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| No-no-no. I'll get it for you. Everyone watch his own head. Timber! There you are Jeffrey. You may take the broomstick Miss Willie, You may take my hand, Hannibal |
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| The next time anyone wants a book from the top, Fairy, call me. Why, the whole shelf might have fallen on you. |
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| Oh, who ever heard of a anyone being hurt by good books? |
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| (Mrs. Paddy rants and ends with electricity) |
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| Miss Willie, how much longer do we have to wait? |
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| They're taking an awfully long time in the front office. |
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| Is she young or old, Miss Willie? |
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| All I know is that her name is Savage-and she gets the Blue Room |
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| I hope she isn't beautiful. Competition exhausts me. |
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| Ting-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling |
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| Hello. Yes, Dr. Emmett. Right away. Put the dart board up, Hannibal. Please don't clutter the place, darlings. Let's make a good first impression |
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| We haven't had anyone exciting here since that magician's wife. Remember-she was all nerves from being sawed in half so much. What was her name? |
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| I forget. Bust she had color. My relations are all so drab. Both my parents were albinos. |
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| Really Fairy-you shouldn't invent such things! |
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| Well, they were! Emotional albinos |
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| Oh, Fairy-don't peek. It's so degrading to get on your knees. |
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| You get on your knees to pray, don't you? I'll say a prayer. Dear God-let me see something |
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| Someone coming out of Dr. Emmett's office |
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| one-two-three strange people. They're coming in here! Let's hide in the hall and eavesdrop. |
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| You know we'll be sent out anyhow |
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| We could call it espionage. |
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| Come, Mrs. Paddy-we're going to spy |
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| This is the last time I'm going to be a party to peeking, Fairy. Kneeling simply ruins my nylons |
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| I mustn't get excited or I'll get hiccups and betray us. |
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