10/99 Now put that table and those chairs before me, so that they can't come right up to me; and, Triplet, don't let them come within six yards, if you can help it. Say it is unfinished, and so must be seen from a focus." "A focus! I don't know what you mean." "No more do I; no more will they, perhaps; and if they don't they will swallow it directly. Are they coming ?" "They are only at the first stair." "Mr.Triplet, your face is a book, where one may read strange matters. Let all the risk lie in one countenance. |