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"A dead thing," he repeated. Then he went over to the spirit-stand and poured himself out more absinthe. "And you, doctor?" said Valentine. "What did you feel?" "I was thinking all the time," he said, "of other things. Not of the table or of table-turning." When he and Cuckoo left the flat that night, or rather in the chill first morning of the new year, they left Julian with Valentine.
In the center of the rich red carpet was a black and gold Louis Quinze table, a lovely antique, now sacrilegiously desecrated with marks of glasses and the scars of cigar-stumps. On it stood a silver tray of smokables and a burnished spirit-stand, from which and an adjacent siphon my silent host proceeded to charge two high glasses.
One is a Tantalus spirit-stand from my friends in the office. The other is a pair of bronzes from the cricket club. They got it up without my knowing anything about it, and I was amazed when a deputation came up to my rooms with them last night. 'May your innings be long and your partnership unbroken until you each make a hundred not out. That was the inscription upon a card.
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