The Greek had done nothing but grin obnoxiously to every word spoken on the way, drawing his hand down across his jaw, to efface the hard pale wrinkles, and eyeing Emilia's cavalier with his shrewdest suspicious look.
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Here and there they were seen crossing the street to puff obnoxiously in the faces of people.
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Had you been less obnoxiously insistent, I should have listened sweetly, and been saved.
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