From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
The first thing they would do would be to open my mouth and extract the soggy ball of my handkerchief, and as they spread it out flat on the table beside my white remains, an orange stamp__ stamp belonging to the King__ould flutter to the floor: It was like something right out of Agatha Christie.
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The first thing they would do would be to open my mouth and extract the soggy ball of my handkerchief, and as they spread it out flat on the table beside my white remains, an orange stamp__ stamp belonging to the King__ould flutter to the floor: It was like something right out of Agatha Christie.
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