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A gray princess-skirt borrowed from a day-boy's mother and a spotted cotton bodice unsystematically padded with imposition-paper make one ridiculous. And in other regards Beetle had a bad conscience. "As usual!" sneered King. "Futile foolery just when your careers, such as they may be, are hanging in the balance. I see! Ah, I see!
But it was fifteen years since, with tears of laughter, she had lent me a gray princess-skirt for amateur theatricals. That was a dinner from the "Arabian Nights," served in an eighty-foot hall full of ancestors and pots of flowering roses, and, what was more impressive, heated by steam. "Oh, bliss!" grunted Dick Four from a sofa, where he had been packed with a rug over him.
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