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Stormont himself seemed quite taken aback by this almost savage onslaught, almost as deprived of self-control as Newcombe himself. "What are you complaining of? " he asked, in a voice that was scarcely audible.
The man whom his accent declared to be a Colonial, answered in his thick utterance: "I don't say anything about not being asked to dine with your swell friends, they're not my kidney, and I'd rather have their room than their company. But after they'd all gone, you might have introduced me to your family."