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„By and large,“ she said, „I am quite sure I am not going to like you one damned little bit. So speak your piece and drift away.“
„What I like about this place is everything runs so true to type,“ I said. „The cop on the gate, the shine on the door, the cigarette and check girls, the fat greasy sensual Jew with the tall stately bored showgirl, the well-dressed, drunk and horribly rude director cursing the barman, the silent guy with the gunn, the night club owner with the soft gray hair and the B-picture mannerisms, and now you –the tall dark torcher with the negligent sneer, the husky voice, the hard-boiled vocabulary.“
She said: „Is that so?“ and fitted her cigarette between her lips and drew slowly on it. „And what about the wise-cracking snooper with the last year’s gags and the come hither smile?“
„And what gives me the right to talk to you at all?“ I said.
„I’ll bite. What does?“