“If they come prying they can leave curious.”
Source: Earthsea Books, Tehanu (1990), Chapter 7, "Mice"
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Part 4, section 28. The last lines of the novel.
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"You have the wrong number."
"Eh? Isn't this the Odeon?"
I decide to give a Burtonian answer.
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