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Updated: May 16, 2025

During such spasms of reversion to type a score of tempestuous raids upon the market had been planned on paper in the inner room of the offices of Manderson, Colefax and Company. But they were never carried out. Blackbeard would quell the mutiny of his old self within him and go soberly down to his counting-house humming a stave or two of 'Spanish Ladies', perhaps, under his breath.

E. C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley - Trent's Last Case

During such spasms of reversion to type a score of tempestuous raids upon the market had been planned on paper in the inner room of the offices of Manderson, Colefax and Company. But they were never carried out. Blackbeard would quell the mutiny of his old self within him and go soberly down to his counting-house humming a stave or two of "Spanish Ladies," perhaps, under his breath.

E. C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley - The Woman in Black