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He straightened himself from the table, pulled down his white dress-vest with its amethyst buttons, and, looking straight into her face, ordered her to leave the room. "I shall not go," she answered boldly. "I have discovered a thief in my father's house; therefore my duty is to remain here." "No. Surely your duty is to go upstairs and tell him;" and he bent again, resuming his rapid memoranda.
He come and ketched me last night sitting on the floor cross-legged, fine-drawing a hole in his dress-vest, and he burst out a-laughing, good-humoured like. "`Why, Brigley, he says, `I didn't know you were a tailor. "`More I am, sir, I says; `but a man as pretends to valet a gent, and can't draw up a tear, or put on a button, ain't worth calling a servant, sir, I says.
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