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There! Listen! Thatis the string quartet just starting up in the drawing-room. He offered to sell them to me, but I was poor and could notpay the price he asked. He said, We have been discussing what to do,sir. He looked at his pocket-knife.

indows,and tree-roots slyly extending themselves beneath the foundations and prisingapart the bricks. You have lived among theseEnglishmen for years. A pauseof some moments' duration. Theyonly served to emphasize the eerie character of his present life.