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Carlo Trent, who were talking with noticeable freedom and emphasis, in an accent which in the Five Towns is known as the "haw haw," the "lah-di-dah" or the "Kensingtonian" accent.
Lord love a duck! what a soakin' he gev' me in Brighton. Some lah-di-dah toff swaggered into the garage that evenin', and handed Dale a fiver five golden quidlets, if you please which my nibs had won on a horse at Epsom. I must say, though, Dale did the thing handsome quart bottles o' Bass opened every ten minutes. Thank you, my dear" this to the waitress, "next to beer give me tea.
Barely twelve hours earlier he had been mincing among the elect and the select and the intellectual and the poetic and the aristocratic; among the lah-di-dah and Kensingtonian accents; among rouged lips and blue hose and fixed simperings; in the centre of the universe. And he had conducted himself with considerable skill accordingly.
Bore you to death?" he interrupted the flow of his own topic to ask carelessly. "Oh, no, Martin!" she quivered. "I I love it there! I always loved it!" "Alix is a fine girl she's a nice girl," Martin conceded. "But I can't go Peter! He may be all right, all that lah-di-dah and Omar Khayyam and Browning stuff may be all right, but I don't get it!" And he yawned contentedly in the sunshine.