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witch thing, he told himself. They’re always very clear about what they want. If you climbed cliffs and braved rivers and ski’d down mountains to bring a box of chocolates to Gytha Ogg, she’d have the nougat centers out of the bottom layer even before you got your crampons off. That’s it. Whatever a witch does, she does one hundred percent.
Hubba, hubba!
“Ain’t you going to eat all those prawns? Just push the plate this way, then.”
He had What also captivated Casanunda was the way Nanny Ogg’s face became a mass of cheerful horizontal lines when she laughed, and Nanny Ogg laughed a lot.
In fact Casanunda was finding, through the faint haze of wine, that he was actually having fun.
“I take it there is no Mr. Ogg?” he said, eventually.tried a little footsie to keep his hand in, as it were, but an accidental blow on the ankle from one of Nanny’s heavy iron-nailed boots had put a stop to that.And then there had been the gypsy violinist. At firstNanny had complained about people playin’ the fiddle while199Terry Pratchettshe was trying to concentrate on her eatin’, but between courses she’d snatched it off the man, thrown the bow into a bowl of camellias, retuned the instrument to something approaching a banjo, and had given Casanunda three rous-ing verses of what, him being foreign, she chose to call II Porcupine Nil Sodomy Est.Then she’d drunk more wine.
Thursday, 23 April 2009
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