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There was a stillness in the room that Selma felt was ominous. Victor's hand strong, well-shaped, useful-looking, used-looking not ABUSED-looking, but USED-looking-was outside the covers upon the white counterpane. The fingers were drumming softly; Selma knew that gesture a certain sign that Victor was troubled in mind. "You've told him," said Selma to Colman as she paused in the doorway.
Along the four walls, books. Fat, comfortable, used-looking books. Hundreds of them. A lamp on the table, and beside it a pipe, blackened from much use. Fanny picked it up, smiling. She held it a moment in her hand, as though she expected to find it still warm. "It's like one of the fairy tales," she thought, "the kind that repeats and repeats.
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