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An imitation-ivory clock ticked among a litter of imitation-ivory dresser fittings. On the edge of the bed, and with no thought for its lacy coverlet, she sat down heavily, her wet coat dragging it awry. An hour ticked past. The maid completed her tasks, announced her departure, and tiptoed out to meet an appointment with a gas-fitter's assistant in the lower rear hall.
At a certain time in his life, before he came to be a great artist, he had learned the gas-fitter's trade, and when his opinions were not identical with the opinions of the art managers of the greater number of New York publications he went to see a friend who was a plumber, and the opinions of this man he was thereafter said to respect.
In the midst of it, and as the majority of the audience were filing out into the adjoining rooms, the gas-fitter's tall companion Andrews mounted the platform, while the gas-fitter himself with an impatient shrug, pushed his way into the outgoing crowd.
Place and particulars were hastily arranged, subject to the approval of the club committee, and Elsmere's audience separated in a glow of curiosity and expection. 'Didn't I tell ye? the gas-fitter's snarling friend said to him. 'Scratch him and you find the parson.
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