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"I'm sorry for phoning, and so late; but I've come. And you wrote that I should come to you... first; at once. I have been hoping that you know of some job or other. But now I'm not going to tell how I feel over phoning like this; to be such a peasant as to take politeness seriously... not even changed out of my traveling clothes, and covered with dust from head to foot."
"Dust, who is not dust? I am dust. But I am your Member of Parliament. nevertheless.