This pusillanimous creature thinks himself, and would be thought, a buck.

"All they'll get in Corfu is a jiffy tummy. Foreign food? You can keep it.” She pulled a face. “Still, live and let live, that's my motto.” Dylan very much doubted that.

In classical Greek mythology, Argiope was a NYMPH of Mount Parnassos in Phokis, central Greece. By the bard Philammon, she gave birth to an even greater musician, her son Thamyris.

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