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 22 : (Fiercely) Hello, Maury. Hello, Anthony Comstock Patch. How is old Adam's grandson? Debutantes still after you, eh?


 * Hello, Caramel. Glad you're here. We needed a comic relief.


 * You're late. Been racing the postman down the block? We've been clawing over your character.


 * (Fixing eagerly with the bright eye) What'd you say? Tell me and I'll write it down. Cut three thousand words out of Part One this afternoon.


 * Noble aesthete. And I poured alcohol into my stomach.


 * I don't doubt it. I bet you two have been sitting here for an hour talking about liquor.


 * We never pass out, my beardless boy.


 * We never go home with ladies we meet when we're lit.