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A black object, half-covered with a painting-rag, lay beside the ink-stand. 'I must make haste, he thought, 'or she will be bothering me again. He looked at the letter, which was still unfinished. Meanwhile he had absently deposited the parcel on the floor, where it rested against the leg of the table. 'Another page will finish it.
A battered old writing-desk had an incongruous look when placed next to a costly buhl clock on a table inlaid indeed with mother-of-pearl, but wanting in one leg; and so no valuable blue china was apt to pass unobserved upon the mantelpiece because it was generally found in company with a child's mug, a plate of crusts, or a painting-rag.
In the middle of the room stood two large easels, a divan, a round table, and three or four chairs; while the floor was thickly strewn with empty color-tubes, bits of painting-rag, corks, cigar-ends, and all kinds of miscellaneous litter. All these things I had observed as I passed in; for this, be it remembered, was my first visit to Müller in his own territory.
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