“That, I believe, was the very first time that the words Tono-Bungay ever heard on earth-unless my uncle indulged in monologues in his chamber-a highly probable thing. Its utterance certainly did not seem to me at the time to mark any sort of epoch, and had I been told this word was the Open Sesame to whatever pride and pleasure the grimy front of London hid from us that evening, I should have laughed aloud.”

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