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Mr. Know-It-All

An important scene in 'Mr.Know-It-All' by Somerset Maugham is the returning of the hundred dollar bill.
Mr.Kelada with a reputation of being a 'know all' gets inot a heated argument on whether the pearl necklace worn by Mrs.Ramsay, another passnger on the ship, is real of fake.
Being an expert in the field, he bets a hundred dollars that the necklace is infact genuine and very expensive.

With the words "they'll never be able to get a culture pearl that an expert like me can't tell with half an eye". he is about to triumphantly announce he is right ...

Posted by: Carmen hershman

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