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The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates
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head sorrowfully.

"Listen," he said. "The noise you hear is not the bath running
away. No, no. My heart is bleeding, sister."

"Better sear that, too," said his wife, reaching for Jonah's
cigarette.

It was just then that my eyes, wandering round the library,
lighted on a copy of "Don Quixote." "The very thing," said I
suddenly.

"What?" said Jill.

"Berry can go as Sancho Panza."

The others stared at me. Berry turned to his wife.

"You and Jill run along, dear, and pad the boxroom. Jonah and
I'll humour him till you're ready."

"Sancho Panza?" said Daphne." But we're going to do The
Caliph's Wedding out of the Arabian Nights."

"Let's drop the Eastern touch," I said, getting up from the
table. "It's sure to be overdone. Give them a page of Cervantes
instead. Jonah can be Don Quixote. You'll make a priceless
Dorothea in boy's clothes, with your hair down your back. Jilly
can be- Wait a minute."

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