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Now the tome which so fascinated Allen was a Theocritus, published at Rome by Caliergus a Theocritus on blue paper, if you please, bound in Longepierre's morocco livery, double with red morocco, and, oh ecstasy! with a copy of Longepierre's version of one Idyll on the flyleaf, signed with the translator's initials, and headed "a Mon Roy."
There was a good deal of talk; people spoke about the unscrupulousness of collectors, and repeated old anecdotes on that subject. Then the business was forgotten. Next, in a year's time or so, the book the confounded Longepierre's Theocritus was found in a pawnbroker's shop. The history of its adventures was traced beyond a shadow of doubt.
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