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Updated: June 20, 2025
Rivière was at his glass-topped, bevel-edged bench in the private biological laboratory at Wiesbaden, surrounded by his apparatus of experiment. At the moment he was looking down with one eye through the high-power immersion lens of his microscope at two tiny blobs of life in a drop of water.
A chart lay folded on a table in the centre of the cabin, with a pair of dividers and a parallel ruler lying on it. Another table stood in a corner near the door a small, glass-topped table such as collectors of curios gather their treasures in. The contents of this table, however, were not curios in the strict sense of the word.
To them, the Romantic Hero was no longer the knight, the wandering poet, the cowpuncher, the aviator, nor the brave young district attorney, but the great sales-manager, who had an Analysis of Merchandizing Problems on his glass-topped desk, whose title of nobility was "Go-getter," and who devoted himself and all his young samurai to the cosmic purpose of Selling not of selling anything in particular, for or to anybody in particular, but pure Selling.
"Yes," said the Doctor, producing the glass-topped box from his pocket, "here it is." "All right. Now listen," said she. "If what you have supposed is true that is, that Long Arrow had been trapped inside the mountain by falling rock, he probably found that beetle inside the cave perhaps many other different beetles too, eh? He wouldn't have been likely to take the Biz-biz in with him, would he?
The collection of watches is a hobby indulged in by but few; there are, however, many single examples included in household curios, and not infrequently several handsomely engraved old watch cases are seen exhibited in the modern glass-topped curio tables so fashionable in twentieth-century drawing-rooms now and then the interest in them being increased by the musical bells of the repeaters, many of which were made a century or more ago.
Surtaine, glossy, grave, a figure to fill the eye roundly, sat at his glass-topped table facing his audience. Above him hung Old Lame-Boy, eternally hobbling amidst his fervid implications. Waving the newcomers to seats directly in front of him, the presiding genius lifted a benign hand for silence. "My friends," he said, in his unctuous, rolling voice, "I have an important announcement to make.
"Maybe we could go easy on the furniture," Oliver said. "Don't worry, I won't go crazy. We'll have a housewarming!" "You're right about the place plenty of room, but not too big. It would be good to get my tools laid out." Five weeks later, they slid a check across a glass-topped table. A tired balding man with a red face tossed Oliver a set of keys. "Kentucky, here I come," he said.
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