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The earliness of the hour made it improbable that she would meet a soul, and yet she dressed carefully, coiling her soft hair, with its silver threads, on the nape of her neck, fastidiously dusting riding boots, and giving a brisk rub to the single spur before she strapped it on. She was adjusting her hard-felt hat before the glass when someone knocked at the door.
But I'm the father of two daughters both married. Yes, I was married young myself, and my good wife died long ago, more's the pity. He paused, looked round the room, stroked his hard-felt hat, Topham murmuring a sympathetic sound. 'Now, as to my business, Mr. Starkey. I'm a fruiterer and greengrocer.
Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the purpose of examination. "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." "Not at all.
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