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Seizing the file, Mr Ambrose flipped it open and placed a big, black-ink check mark at the very bottom. For a moment I thought I saw a gleam of triumph in his eyes, but surely I was mistaken. After all, what could be so satisfying about getting rid of garbage?
Problems were fun. Problems were adventure.
‘What do you want?’ I hissed back at him. ‘What do you dream about? Have I ever asked, or dared to criticize?’ The question seemed to catch him off guard. His mouth opened a little bit. ‘Well… no.’ ‘Then don't you dare tell me my dreams are insane! Because my dreams are what I live for!’
‘Why? What are you going to do? Make me carry twice as many files as before?’ I could have been wrong, of course, about what I thought I saw next. Afterwards I thought I probably had to be wrong. Maybe he was having a muscle spasm around the mouth or something. But for a moment it looked like one of the corners of his mouth actually twitched up in the beginnings of a smile.
hmm maybe shes not so bad after all sir?
Everybody stared at him as he stood there, facing the motionless dancers. Everybody except me, that is. I was too busy staring at the tall, ravishingly beautiful woman who had entered the room on his arm.
no...
In any case, what all this boils down to is that I am in love with Miss Hamilton. Passionately in love.’
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‘And what has that got to do with me?’ ‘Simply this: Whenever Mr Ambrose happened not to watch me, his gaze was drawn to you.’ What?
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‘He looked at you more than at any other person in the room, myself excepted.’
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have chosen to confess my secret to you,’ he whispered conspiratorially. ‘If for now you promise you will reveal it to no living soul.’ ‘Go on.’ I waved my hand. ‘I promise I will reveal it only to vampires, ghosts and other members of the undead community.’
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I wish I could meet her someday.’ No problem. Just come around the bush and
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shall forsake my family. I will run away with you. May God forgive me.’
uh oh lol
‘Will that mean she’ll have to marry him and have a whole lot of babies and grow fat and mopy because she really wanted to do something else with her life but she never said it out loud and so she’ll die a tragic death from sadness and nobody will know why?’
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‘That’s what friends are for, you dolt! You have to burden them with all kinds of problems, so they can unload their misery on you in return.’
‘Oh Edmund! You are so clever!’ ‘Well… actually I got the idea from a book…’ ‘Clever and well-read! My dream man!’
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