“We are greatly complimented, my lord,” Marquis Sherrinford said dryly. “You don’t think we’re gibbering madmen.”

— Michael Kurland, book Ten Little Wizards

Source: Ten Little Wizards (1988), Chapter 15 (p. 153)

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“We are greatly complimented, my lord,” Marquis Sherrinford said dryly. “You don’t think we’re gibbering madmen.”

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