"The world is an onion, Mr Menheniot, skin within skin, and anyone who thinks it's nothing but the outside one that lies in the dung can have it if he wants it. A real man of the world knows them all, down to the heart's core of the thing.
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"And there's so much gossip in the [countryside], Mr Menheniot. It makes a person uncomfortable."
She had scuttled to earth like a beetle that knows it is in danger of being trodden on.
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