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Updated: May 27, 2025
For, unnoticed by him, Milo Standish had drawn forth, with tender care, an exquisitely carved and colored meerschaum pipe from a case on the smoking-stand, and was picking up the fat tobacco jar. For a moment, Brice stared agape and helplessly flustered, as Standish proceeded to thrust his meerschaum's rich-hued bowl into the tobacco jar.
It is with deep humiliation of spirit I record that a housemaid coming into my library at seven o'clock the next morning, found me, in top hat and overcoat, asleep on the library couch. I had, however, removed my collar and tie, and my watch, carefully wound, was on the smoking-stand beside me. The death of Arthur Wells had taken place on Monday evening. Tuesday brought nothing new.
His gaze of admiration was so sincere that Fifi couldn't resent it. She often looked her best in the morning, and her dainty negligee and bewitching French cap made her a lovely picture. She tucked herself into a big, cushioned chair, and drawing a smoking-stand nearer, fussed with its silver appointments.
I am afraid I was rather excited, for I took Sperry's hat from him, and placed it on the head of a marble bust which I had given my wife on our last anniversary, and Sperry says that I drew a smoking-stand up beside Elinor Wells with great care. I do not know.
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