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The Three Clerks

CHAPTER XXII
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We have already alluded to his feet.

Ascending from them, and ascending not far, we come to his coat.

It is needless to say that it is a frock; needless to say that it is a long frock--long as those usually worn by younger infants, and apparently made so for the same purpose.

But look at the exquisitely small proportions of the collar; look at the grace of the long sleeves, the length of back, the propriety, the innate respectability, the perfect decorum--we had almost said the high moral worth--of the whole.
Who would not willingly sacrifice any individual existence that he might become the exponent of such a coat?
Macassar Jones was proud to do so.
"But he had bestowed perhaps the greatest amount of personal attention on his collar.

It was a matter more within his own grasp than those great and important articles to which attention has been already drawn; but one, nevertheless, on which he was able to expend the whole amount of his energy and genius.


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