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START: KITTY: You’re here every night.
NANCY: Yes.
KITTY: I asked the boy on the door: ‘Who’s that girl?� I thought it must be the acrobats in the second half you came to see, the ones with the tight trousers � but I’m told you leave as soon as I’ve finished.
[... …]
END: KITTY: What
NANCY: No I
KITTY: You smell like
NANCY: Like a herring.
KITTY: Not a herring. Perhaps, maybe, like a mermaid. Goodbye, Miss Mermaid. May we meet again.
Laura Wade, Tipping the Velvet, Oberon Books, Electronic Edition, pp.46-49.
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