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No such things exist in a Japanese home. We saw one box, about three inches square, which was valued at 45l.; and a collection of really good lacquer would be costly and difficult to procure even here. The best specimens I have ever seen are at Lady Alcock's; but they are all either royal or princely presents, not to be bought with money.
In this paper he enumerated these works as already accomplished: 1. The choir restored and rearranged. South-east transept restored. South-west transept restored. Roof of north transept restored and painted. Nave ceiled and painted. Nave roof repaired and re-leaded. S. Catherine's chapel rebuilt. Bishop Alcock's chapel restored. Galilee porch re-paved.
Alcock's book was followed by many others, and twenty-five years ago the world was so far from being dependent on Kaemfer for its knowledge of Japan that, as I have said, it had even then quite a library of recent and reliable books in regard to that country.
I had to put the conversation into the form of a cross-examination. "'Why not? I asked; 'don't you think she cares for you any longer? "He burst into a harsh laugh. 'There ain't much fear o' that, he said; 'it's like 'aving an Alcock's porous plaster mashed on yer, blowed if it ain't. There's no gettin' rid of 'er. I wish she'd giv' somebody else a turn. I'm fair sick of 'er.
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