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Updated: May 6, 2025
The lady- companion comes here at dusk with a thick black veil over her face, and she thinks I don't know who she is; but I do know her, and know where she lives, and whom she lives with. After this I buy myself a quire of writing-paper, which I don't want, and I wish my fancy-stationer good afternoon.
However, when a man has devoted his life to ferreting out information, the habit of ferreting is apt to be very strong upon him; so I pass the time of day to my fancy-stationer, and then begins to ferret. 'Madame Durski, at Hilton House yonder, is an uncommonly handsome woman, I throw out, by way of an opening. 'Uncommonly, replies my fancy-stationer, by which I perceive he knows her.
'Oh, says I, 'gilt-edged note- paper and cream-coloured sealing-wax, for instance. 'I don't sell her a quire of paper in a month, answers my stationer. 'If she was as fond of writing letters as she is of playing cards, I think it would be better for her. 'Oh, she's fond of card-playing is she? I ask. 'Yes, replies my fancy-stationer, 'I rather think she is.
'A customer of yours, perhaps? I throw out, promiscuous. 'Yes, answers my fancy-stationer. 'A good one, too, I'll be bound, I throw out, in a lively, conversational way. My fancy-stationer smiles, and being accustomed to study smiles, I see significance in his smile. 'A very good one in some things, replies my fancy-stationer, laying a tremendous stress upon the word some.
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