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He shoved his dust-eaten pot-hat on one side, scratched his thin hair, and after some pressing, admitted that he didn't think that they would do much good in the place; as far as he could see, everybody's ideas were on striking and politics; the general election especially was playing the devil with managers; at least that was what the company that had just left said.
He turned from the contemplation of the dreary, half-empty auditorium with a faint shudder. The theatre was an ancient and unpopular one. The hall-mark of failure and poverty was set alike upon the tawdry and faded hangings, the dust-eaten decorations and the rows of bare seats. It was a relief when the feeble overture came to an end, and the curtain was rung up.
The photographs, in which the pollens of two planet-flowers mingle, lie in my attic, dust-eaten: "Above all, the patient must not see anything of that kind," has been the order ever since I published a card announcing my discovery to my fellow-citizens. But they were gentle; they did not take away all. The old books are with me, each a benison from a brother.
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