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Updated: May 9, 2025
This was done. Cyril touched the padlock. Anthea got the Necessaire. Robert clutched the candle. Jane picked up the tie-clip. 'It's not much, she said. 'I don't believe Ancient Egyptians wore ties. 'Never mind, said Anthea. 'I believe it's luckier not to really choose.
'That is all very well, said Pharaoh, 'but where are the gifts? The children, bowing as well as they could in their embarrassment at finding themselves the centre of interest in a circle more grand, more golden and more highly coloured than they could have imagined possible, pulled out the padlock, the Necessaire, and the tie-clip. 'But it's not tribute all the same, Cyril muttered.
They at least were of the world of understandable things. Miller, slouching in his chair, with a cheap tie-clip showing underneath his waistcoat, a bulging mass of sock descending over the top of his boot, rolling a cigarette with yellow-stained, objectionable fingers, still involved him in introspective speculation as to real values in life.
The scissors, knife, and thimble, and penknife were, of course, lost, but the other things were there and as good as new. Cyril contributed lead soldiers, a cannon, a catapult, a tin-opener, a tie-clip, and a tennis ball, and a padlock no key. Jane added a key-ring, the brass handle of a poker, a pot that had held cold-cream, a smoked pearl button off her winter coat, and a key no lock.
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