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The Younger Set

CHAPTER VII
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It was quite an Anatshair jumble in fact, very characteristic.

We must capture Nina some day and she and you and I will pay a visit to Boots's rugs and study these old dyes and mystic symbols of the East.

Shall we?
"And now your last question.

And I answer: Yes, I do miss you--so badly that I often take refuge in summoning you in spirit.

The other day I had occasion to see Austin; and we sat in the library where all the curtains are in linen bags and all the furniture in overalls, and where the rugs are rolled in tarred paper and the pictures are muffled in cheese-cloth.
"And after our conference had ended and I was on my way to the hall below, suddenly on my ear, faint but clear, I heard your voice, sweet as the odour of blossoms in an empty room.


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