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"Your clothes will never do," he said; "such richness of apparel, such fine stuff we must give you others." He rang the bell. The old man-servant appeared. "A waiter's suit for the Linien-Strasse!" he said. Then he led me into a bedroom where a worn suit of German shoddy was spread out on a sofa. He made me change into it, and then handed me a threadbare green overcoat and a greasy green felt hat.
The street was all but deserted at that hour save for an occasional policeman, but from cellars with steps leading down from the streets came the jingle of automatic pianos and bursts of merriment to show that the Linien-Strasse was by no means asleep. Before one of these cellar entrances the Jew stopped.
Clients of mine who have enjoyed a classical education have thought very highly of the humour of my device." The cab dropped us at the corner of the Friedrich-Strasse, which was ablaze with light from end to end, and the Linien-Strasse, a narrow, squalid thoroughfare of dirty houses and mean shops.
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