"Beans. Human -- human be-ings," replies Aglet, closing his eyes and enunciating sheepishly. Jennifer's told him enough times by now that he knows 'bean' isn't the proper word, but he's refused to stop calling them that out of bloody-mindedness a sense of tradition. "It's just what we call you."
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bloody-mindednessa sense of tradition. "It's just what we call you."