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The Three Clerks

CHAPTER XXII
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It was a Tom and Jerry hat turned up at the sides, with a short but knowing feather, velvet trimmings, and a steel buckle blinking brightly in the noonday sun.

Had Macassar seen her in this he would have yielded himself her captive at once, quarter or no quarter.

It was the most marked, and perhaps the most attractive peculiarity of the Lady Crinoline's face, that the end of her nose was a little turned up.

This charm, in unison with the upturned edges of her cruel-hearted hat, was found by many men to be invincible.
"We all know how dreadful is the spectacle of a Saracen's head, as it appears, or did appear, painted on a huge board at the top of Snow Hill.

From that we are left to surmise with what tremendous audacity of countenance, with what terror-striking preparations of the outward man, an Eastern army is led to battle.


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