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The poor fellow has fallen in love with a certain Mademoiselle Modeste de La Bastie, a rather pale, insignificant, and thread-papery little thing, who, by the way, has the vice of liking literature, and calls herself a poet to excuse the caprices and humors of a rather sullen nature. You know Ernest, he is so easy to catch that I have been afraid to leave him to himself.
The poor artist had indeed fasted long enough to give to his naturally thin and lank figure a thread-papery appearance that might have suggested the idea that he was evaporating.
Several other men sat about, and there was loud laughter, under which the lean youth looked sheepishly angry. "'Tarn't no good, Sammy, lad," some one was saying, "you a-makin' after Nancy Webb she'll ha' nowt to do with 'ee." "Don' like 'em so thread-papery," added another. "No, Sammy, you aren't the lad for she. I see her " "What about Nancy Webb?" asked Kentish, pushing open the door.
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