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| 1 - 3 | Virginia remarks that she's rarely impressed by London cartography.
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| 7, 9 | Virginia peruses the maps with a closed mouth and raised eyebrows. London cartography doesn't impress her.
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| 4 | Loss of too many workers might cause delays and extra costs," she remarks. "I wonder whether a safer direction might be found?"
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| 5 | "Those hills are not so unoccupied as they appear," she says. "And it will require a lot of explosives to make them suitable for track laying."
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| 10 - 14, 16 - 18, 20 - 24, 26, 30, 31 | "By all means, let's get rid of someone […] The Board is overcrowded. But I would prefer to start elsewhere." It isn't clear whether she has someone in mind, but everyone else assumes she means them, and the next five minutes get rather heated.
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| 19 | "Southwark is a blowhard and an enemy of Hell," […] "But he has elevated his hatred to a performance art. I've never been able to cause anyone quite so much distress simply by walking into a room. Please don't deprive me of that pleasure. […]
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| 28 | "Oh, no, surely not," says Virginia. "One of the few colleagues on the Board with Hell's interests in mind? Even if he does have a very unorthodox interpretation of a few things. But nonetheless. I couldn't let him go."
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| 29 | "I'd hate to let him go," says Virginia. "It's true his Soul is already gone, so there's nothing to hope for there. But what a piece of artistry! My fellow Deviless did an astonishing bit of work with him, I will say."
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| 32 | Virginia indicates that she has no objection to parting with 'any of our overly liturgical friends'.
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| 33, 35, 37 | Virginia looks extremely pained all of the sudden. "I wouldn't," she says. "I really cannot advise that course."
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| 100, 105, 115 - 170 | "Well," says Virginia, her brows arched. "I can see without meeting her that the architect has a clear soul."
When the rest of the board does not know how to take this apparently devastating remark, Virginia clarifies that it is a Nay vote.
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| 181 - 186 | "Perhaps a bit closer to Hell would be best?," asks Virginia. "They are hoping to be independent of London, are they not?"
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| 200 | Virginia offers two or three weary sentences about the military imagination of London. "This will offer as much protection as wrapping the train in brown paper," she says. "We should spend our money elsewhere."
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| 205 | "Furtive shipping of cargo," she says glumly. "This is not quite the ambition I had for the train."
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| 210 | Virginia's mouth crooks. "It's a very London sort of decoration. I don't expect that we'll be able to tempt very many Devils away from the accommodations of the Moloch Line, but if we hope to attract any, […] something a bit smarter?"
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| 220 - 280 | Virginia exhales impatiently. "Get other workers. Bring in Clay Men. This is a difficulty that Mr Fires does not face. We cannot afford to face it either."
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| 300 | These precepts irritate Virginia. "One needs a slogan for an election," she says. "But no one is voting for the Company."
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| 310 - 320, 340, 932 | Virginia scowls and comments that this is the sort of thing she would expect from a set of Londoners.
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| 400 | Virginia argues that the company's dividends ought to be paid half in conventional currency and half in Souls. Half an hour is lost discussing the sourcing of the Souls and whether they would require proper licenses or contracts.
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| 500 | "The Devils have our own history with Parabola […] I would not rely too heavily on the cooperation anyone who lives in dreams, whether cat or snake or embodied nightmare. If you meet an ambulatory pie in Parabola, you should distrust that as well."
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| 510 | "Ordinarily, I would favour this solution […] But I have a few reservations about the particular set of Devils who breed the Hellworms. […] I would want to […] make sure that they did not expect to take advantage of the board in some regard."
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| 520 - 522, 525 - 529 | "I would approach this from an entirely different direction," says Virginia drily. "And I think I may claim greater familiarity with this part of the Neath than almost anyone else at this table."
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| 600 | Virginia does not think much of this plan. "No candidate meets my standards," she remarks.
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| 620 | "F. F. Gebrandt is attempting to manage emotions […] But without the expertise in souls, she can be no more than a charlatan." Someone […] points out that Virginia's soul experiments have not been entirely satisfying. There is a sulphurous silence.
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| 700, 720 | "Someone else, please," says Virginia. "I've never met someone with such a... gant-coloured soul."
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| 710 | "I have no taste for putting Revolutionaries in power," she says.
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| 800 | "I would prefer another proposal," says Virginia. "I don't think he is very sympathetic to Devils."
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| 850 | Virginia looks arch but remarks that she knows all about this individual, that he has been the talk of Devilesses for some time, and that she doubts whether he can be trusted. She refuses to answer further questions on the topic.
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| 905, 910 | Virginia shakes her head. "We cannot afford to be distracted by such nonsense. A church, I ask you. Why not build a public lavatory or something useful?"
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| 931, 933 - 934 | Virginia raises one eyebrow. "Is this really our only alternative? I think not."
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| 940 - 941 | Virginia shakes her head. "A waste of money and time, darling."
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| 1000, 1020, 1030 | "I have no objection," says Virginia, "to making an arrangement with this power. But I do question whether this is the most advantageous route."
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| 1100, 1110 | "Nothing good has ever come from that place […] I happen to rather like our trains. I would not see one sacrificed for a war that does not matter […] No offence. But the only one worth fighting has already been won and you sit among its victors now."
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