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A PERFECTLY GOOD MAN
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Quotation from Dorothy Sayers’s
The Man Born to Be King
© 1943, reproduced by kind permission of David Higham Associates
Quotation from U. A. Fanthorpe’s ‘Atlas’, from
From Me to You: Love Poems
by U. A. Fanthorpe and R. V. Bailey © 2007, reproduced by kind permission of Dr Rosie Bailey
EPub Edition © DECEMBER 2011 ISBN: 978-0-00-746706-8
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