Cecil flashed a grin. Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of trea…

Lois McMaster Bujold
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Cecil flashed a grin. Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah... Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. Equals? Miles hazarded. Cattle, Cecil corrected judiciously. ✨ Lois McMaster Bujold (1990). Vorkosigan's Game
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Cecil flashed a grin. Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah... Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. Equals? Miles hazarded. Cattle, Cecil corrected judiciously. ✨ Lois McMaster Bujold (1990). Vorkosigan's Game

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