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I love the beginning of a job-when one doesn't know any of the people and it's just exciting and amusing. If it was all on paper I'd enjoy every bit of it. I took it up when the bottom of things was rather knocked out for me, because it was so damned exciting, and the worst of it is, I enjoy it-up to a point. It is full of variety and it forces one to keep up to the mark and not get slack. I do it quite well-not with inspiration, perhaps, but sufficiently well to take a pride in it. I know it to be useful, and I am fitted to it. The detective considered the question, and replied: “The two men sat silent for a little, and then Lord Peter said:
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