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Idly he turned over the leaves of a first edition of Tennyson's poems, pausing here and there to glance at a favourite lyric or con over a well-remembered verse, when the echo of a silvery horn blown clear on the wintry silence startled him out of his semi-abstraction.
A derisive cheer went up as a woman appeared on the cart. The wearer of the tam-o'-shanter! Three others followed all women. Miss Levering saw without seeming to look, still listening while the practical-minded mother talked on about her child, and what 'was good for it. All life had resolved itself into pursuit of that. An air of semi-abstraction came over the lady.
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