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...book is alive with the personalities of real Lifemen. There are men like G. Odoreida, a thorough cad even by Lifemanship standards (to a fellow Lifeman ecstatically in love he would dryly remark: "Well, how is your little caper with Julia going?"). And there are crafty operators like G. Cogg-Willoughby, whose most famous victory came at a weekend party against an egregious hostess-nobbier named P. de Sint, the kind of man who develops a rich, bronze suntan in a matter of hours...
...Cogg-Willoughby: You're one of the lucky ones...
...Cogg-Willoughby: They always say that the Southern types brown more easily...
...Cogg-Willoughby: Oh, I don't know . . . Mediterranean...
...this way, reports Potter, Cogg-Willoughby was able to suggest that De Sint probably had a "touch of the tarbrush in his ancestry." De Sint spent the rest of the weekend fully clothed...