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I relax my mind in this way, though you would hardly think it the proper place for a Balliol man, while that overfed brute up at the Hall can drive out with a pair of two-hundred-guinea bays, sir. Fancy a gentleman and a scholar being in this company, sir!
Just imagine them bowing and scraping when she told 'em to send home a thousand-pound tiara, or a two-hundred-guinea white fox, and promised they should be paid on delivery. Why, they strewed her path with bows and smiles and when they sent home the goods to a flat by Regent's Park an address she always gave they found it empty and no one there to take delivery.
We understand now that C. Mendellii is as safe to import as any other species, unless it be gathered at the wrong time. Among the most glorious, rarest, and most valuable of Cattleyas is C. Hardyana, doubtless a natural hybrid of C. aurea with C. gigas Sanderiana. Few of us have seen it two-hundred-guinea plants are not common spectacles.
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