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From where he sat he could not only overlook the small tables holding a choice collection of little tear-bottles, bowls of crushed ice and high-pressure siphons, but his eye also took in the stretch beyond, the club windows commanding the view up and down and quite across the Avenue, as well as the vista to the left. This outlook was the most valuable asset the Magnolia possessed.
I felt a lump rise in my own throat as I sat an unwilling witness to her distress; while as for Annesley but avast! we are bound on a quest for honour and glory, so stow away the tear-bottles, coil down all tender feeling out of sight, and Westward Ho! for the land of Yellow Jack.
At frequent intervals, facing the road, you see with mournful interest the exposed interiors of tombs, showing that beautiful and curious opus reticulatum, or reticulated arrangement of bricks or tufa blocks, which is so characteristic of the imperial period, and rows upon rows of neat pigeon-holes in the brickwork, which contained the cinerary urns, all robbed of their treasures, their tear-bottles, and even their bones.
The Collector tapped gently and affectionately on all the swellings and protuberances of his various pockets, and said: "Oh, well, some very nice things all sorts of curiosities. A battle-axe, a pair of thunderbolts, some heathen rings beautiful things all covered with green rust ash-urns, tear-bottles, three idols and a pair of valuable lamps."
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