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The Cold Chills went down his Spine when he caught a Flash of the Half-Morocco Prospectus. If it had been a Man Agent he would have shouted "Sick 'em" and reached for a Paper-Weight. He has about One Chance in a Million. She said she was the only Support of her Little Boy, who was attending a Military School at Syracuse, N.Y. She turned the Liquid Orbs on him and had him to the Bad.
There was a sitting-room and a bedroom, and on the round table in the centre of the sitting-room was a copy of the most modern edition of Quain's 'Dictionary of Medicine, edited by Murray, Harold, and Bosanquet, bound in half-morocco; the volume was open at the article 'Anæsthetics, and Hugo will always remember that the page was sixty-two.
"I don't see," I said earnestly, "how you can afford to sell such things as this so cheap." "They are cheap," he admitted regretfully. I suppose he wished he had tried me with the half-morocco. "They are priceless," I said, "absolutely priceless. If you were the only man in the world who had that poem, I think I would deed you my farm for it." Mr.
On the walls were the Whistler etchings, the steel engravings by Oh-what's-his-name?, the still-life paintings of the grapes and garden truck with the watermelon seeds spilled on the table as natural as life, and the Greuze head. It was a household. There was even brass andirons. On a table was an album, half-morocco, with oxidized-silver protections on the corners of the lids.
The books, too, were all in handsome editions Meredith in green leather with a gold-worked monogram, Pater in red half-morocco, Swinburne in light-blue with red and gold tooling rich and to some extent unobtrusive, but reiterating unmistakably the first impression that the room had given, the mark of something superficial. Robin was there now, dressing for dinner.
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