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"I beg your pardon," Allen stopped her; "the patient in the operating-chair is not allowed to suppose. Here is a little piece of paper and an easy-flowing fountain-pen. This is where you place your name and address for the delivery of the volumes." "But that is a contract blank, Allen," remarked Mrs. Gorham. "I know it is, but you have no right even to think such a thing.
But come in, before you forget it!" and seizing both her hands with a playful gesture, he dragged her within the door, closed it, pulled her through the side-door into the front basement which formed the office, drew up a clumsy cushioned operating-chair near the table, sat her down in it, then cast himself into a chair immediately in front of her, threw one leg over the other and his hands behind his head, and said: "Now I am resigned and prepared.
"We shall be cosier here," he said; for he dared not take the stranger up in the room where the statue was concealed, for fear of accidents. The man sat down in the operating-chair and crossed his legs. "I dare say you're wondering what I've come about like this on a Sunday afternoon?" he began. "Not at all," said Leander. "Anything I can have the pleasure of doing for you "
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