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Updated: June 24, 2025

'I must hook it, said Mr Colclough, picking up his dust-coat. 'Not yet you don't, said Mr Brindley. 'I've got to get the taste of that infernal Strauss out of my mouth. We'll play the first movement of the G minor? La-la-la la-la-la la-la-la-ta. He whistled a phrase. Mr Colclough obediently sat down again to the piano. The Mozart was like an idyll after a farcical melodrama.

Arnold Bennett - The Grim Smile of the Five Towns