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Burkhardt looked straight ahead of her into this silence at a closed door hung with a newspaper rack, at a black-walnut horsehair divan, a great sea-shell on the carpet beside it. A nickelplated warrior gleamed from the top of a baseburner that showed pink through its mica doors. He stood out against the chocolate-ocher wallpaper and a framed Declaration of Independence, hanging left. A coal fell.
I turned to another patrician. "Here again is a first-class bath. 'The Nobleman. A great feature is the glass screen. The enamel, too, is of the very best quality. Nickelplated fittings, stream line body, detachable whee er that is, the waste also is constructed on a most ingenious principle: we call it the 'Want-Not' pattern." "Ah," she said quietly. "And what's the price of this er paragon?"
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