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Was another man occupying Barraclough's place deputising for him in his absence? Harrison Smith struck one hand against the other. "By God," he exclaimed. "It's the most unlikely thing in the world but I'm going to believe it. I'm going to believe that the chap with the humorous lines round his eyes is no more Barraclough than I am." He alighted at Waterloo Station aglow with excitement.
Last year they had the sweetest little ponies four of them, no higher than St. Bernards and there are the clowns too, and a band." She was suddenly afraid that she was talking too much silly too, in her childish enthusiasms. She remembered that she was in reality deputising for her mother, who would never have talked about the Circus.
Now dancing women were no more to the great man than a troupe of performing collies, but his artistic sense demanded the best, and when it was not forth-coming he felt the same annoyance as you or I would feel if arrayed in purple and fine linen we adorned a box at the opera with our presence, covered with as many diamonds upon it as possible, to find a street singer deputising for a Melba or Caruso.
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