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deserve. Now listen carefully.” And with tigerish zest, monstrously magnifying a trivial tiff she had had with him whose pyjamas (the idiot subject of the tiff) were changing the while, in the spectrum of his surprise and distress, from heliotrope to a sickly gray, she dismissed the poor oaf for ever.

“That's done, [”] she said, resolutely replacing the receiver. Was I game now for another round, she wanted to know.

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活该。现在给我仔细听好了。”她有如老虎发威，恶狠狠地放大着他们之间的一场小争执，其时，他的睡衣（这场争执的愚蠢主题），在他惊愕和痛苦的光谱中，由淡紫转为一种病态的灰色，她将这可怜的笨蛋永远地打发掉了。

“就这样吧。”她说着便果断地挂断了电话。她想知道，自己现在是不是该开始下一轮交战。