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You could have judged at once how he would shave his neighbours, when you saw the celerity, the completeness with which he shaved himself, a forestroke and a backstroke, and tondenti barba cadebat. Cheek and chin were as smooth as glass. You would have buttoned up your pockets instinctively if you had seen him. But the rest of Mr. Avenel's toilet was not completed with correspondent despatch.
And then proceeding to his operation, "Sir," said he, "since I have dealt in suds, I could never discover more than two reasons for shaving; the one is to get a beard, and the other to get rid of one. I conjecture, sir, it may not be long since you shaved from the former of these motives. Upon my word, you have had good success; for one may say of your beard, that it is tondenti gravior."
You could have judged at once how he would shave his neighbours, when you saw the celerity, the completeness with which he shaved himself, a forestroke and a backstroke, and /tondenti barba cadebat/. Cheek and chin were as smooth as glass. You would have buttoned up your pockets instinctively if you had seen him. But the rest of Mr. Avenel's toilet was not completed with correspondent despatch.
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