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Updated: June 9, 2025
They were spread upon the coverlid of the bed, and the invalid took a great and humorous satisfaction in looking them over. Said the Bibliotaph, recounting the incident in his succinct way, 'They reached him on his death-bed, and made him willing to go. The Bibliotaph was true to the traditions of the book-collecting brotherhood, in that he read but little.
I read it with care, from the adorably finished prologue it is the disgrace of our Navy that we cannot produce a commissioned officer capable of writing one page of lyric prose to the eloquent, the joyful, the impassioned end; and my first notion was that I had been cheated. In this sort of book-collecting you will see how entirely the bibliophile lies at the mercy of his agent.
That night I dined out, and happened to sit next a young lady who possessed a great deal of taste, though that was the least of her charms. The fashion for book-collecting was among her innocent pleasures; she had seen Allen's books at Oxford, and I told her of his longings for the Theocritus.
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