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Ah, sahib. I know you just come to comfort a old man left to live by hisself. Soomintra say I too old-fashion. And Leela, she always by you. Why you don’t sit down, sahib? It ain’t dirty. Is just how it does look.�
Ganesh didn’t sit down. ‘Ramlogan, I come to buy over your taxis.
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― The Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street
― The Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street

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It was not long after that Ganesh saw a big new notice in the shop, painted on cardboard.
‘Is Leela self who write that,� Ramlogan said. ‘I didn’t ask she to write it, mind you. She just sit down quiet quiet one morning after tea and write it off.�
It read:
NOTICE
NOTICE, IS. HEREBY; PROVIDED: THAT, SEATS!
ARE, PROVIDED. FOR; FEMALE: SHOP, ASSISTANTS!
Ganesh said, ‘Leela know a lot of punctuation marks.�
That is it, sahib. All day the girl just sitting down and talking about these puncturation
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― The Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street
― The Mystic Masseur and Miguel Street

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