...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that …

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...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'. ✨ H. G. Wells (2016). Tono-Bungay, p.250, H. G. Wells
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...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'. ✨ H. G. Wells (2016). Tono-Bungay, p.250, H. G. Wells

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