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cigarettes, but a couple had pipes, and Atherton had a wonderful mother-of-pearl affair with a shiny teak handle.
“Everyone smokes!” said Alex.
“Don’t they in the future?” said Dora.
“Well – some people do,” said Ruby
disapprovingly. “But only idiots. Don’t you know smoking kills you?”
“I don’t think it does,” said Dora kindly. “Simply everyone does it, you know, and they’re not dead, are they?” She made a sweeping gesture with her arm. Everyone did, indeed, seem not to be dead.
“It does in the end though,” Alex said.
Dora didn’t seem too worried by this
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