"It was a lovely story and the cast were quite remarkable," Sybil said brightly. Vimes waited for the 'but' he could hear coming and had expected through the latter half of the performance, vibrating under the iron-clad manners that had also kept his own more acerbic comments on what seemed to be a load of convenient nonsense that could have been solved with a bit of common sense, at bay. "However, if they tried that with a real swamp dragon, that unicorn and swan would have spent a lot more time jolly well looking for their bits than worrying about the actions of any leopard warrior."
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Vimes waited for the 'but' he could hear coming and had expected through the latter half of the performance, vibrating under the iron-clad manners that had also kept his own more acerbic comments on what seemed to be a load of convenient nonsense that could have been solved with a bit of common sense, at bay.
"However, if they tried that with a real swamp dragon, that unicorn and swan would have spent a lot more time jolly well looking for their bits than worrying about the actions of any leopard warrior."