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The Divine Fire

CHAPTER IV
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And in the midst of the ideas a figure insanely whirled, till it became a mere wheel of flying skirts and tossing limbs.
At this point Mr.Rickman caught the cashier's eye looking at him over the little mahogany rails of his pew, and he began wondering how on earth the cashier would behave when they loosed him out for the Bank Holiday.

Then he set to and wrote hard at the Quarterly Catalogue.

In all London there was not a more prolific or versatile writer than Savage Keith Rickman.

But if in ninety-two you had asked him for his masterpiece, his _magnum opus_, his life-work, he would mention nothing that he had written, but refer you, soberly and benignly, to that colossal performance, the Quarterly Catalogue.
"Vandam: Amours of Great Men (a little soiled).

Rare.


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