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The disordered table, the cigarette-ash in the two saucers, the crumbs from a Huntley and Palmer's cake on the table-cloth these homely things struck her as incongruous. She had expected a vision of Akhnaton; she had hoped for it. She put her head down on her arms again; her thoughts had been very sweet; with closed eyes they might come back again.
He glanced down involuntarily, and carefully flicked some cigarette-ash from his waistcoat. The action arrested her speech for a moment, and then, with a little shudder, she continued: "The best they can say of you is, 'There goes Charley Steele!" "And the worst?" he asked. He was almost smiling now, for he admired her anger, her scorn.
"She would be kind to you, too, Binko. She would not say she found your hairs on every chair, and that you dribbled on her dress! She would not tell your master that he left his cigarette-ash about, and she hated the smell of smoke! She would not want this room for her boudoir, she "
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