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Madame appeared from the breakfast room. First of all she dismissed Cora with the strelitzias (hateful blooms, regalized bananas, really).

“Look,” she said to the beaming bum,“if you ever repeat this idiotic performance, I will never see you again. I swear I won't! In fact, I have a great mind—” He flattened her against the wall between his outstretched arms; Flora ducked, and freed herself, and showed him the door; but the telephone was already ringing ecstatically when he reached his lodgings.

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夫人吃完早餐從餐廳里走了出來。她首先讓科拉拿走這些天堂鳥（讓人生厭的花，真是華而不實的香蕉）。

“你給我聽好了，”她對眼前這位滿臉堆笑的乞丐說，“如果你再有這種白癡行徑，我絕不會再見你。我發誓，絕不會再見你！實際上，我很想——”他把她夾緊在墻和他伸出的兩只手臂間。弗洛拉猛然一低頭，才掙脫出來，并趕他走。當他回到住處時，電話已在瘋狂地響著。