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He certainly is deucedly anatomical at present. I'll go and leave him in Copal's studio, and then I can borrow his tea-things at the same time." The studio was a lofty room on the ground-floor with an elaborately-devised skylight, and a large window facing north, through which a distant glimpse of Holland Park could be obtained.
"So glad to see you, old man! we were hoping you would turn up. Better late than never. Isn't it a crush? I assure you our evenings are becoming quite an institution. You will find scores of people you know here. Excuse my leaving you. Not much like the old studio days, eh? Afternoon tea with Copal's cups and saucers, and Mrs. Thingumy's tea-cakes.
I generally borrow Copal's, but the beggar's gone out and locked his door. You ladies will have to imagine you're at Oxford." Mrs. Sylvester looked bewildered, and paused with one hand on the Satsuma teapot. "Don't you know, mamma, it isn't form, don't you say? to have sugar-tongs at Oxford? It was one of the things Charles always objected to.
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