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The Shoulders of Atlas

CHAPTER IV
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"She thinks it's prettier than this, and I must say it's real handsome.
It's solid oak and has a looking-glass on it.

This hasn't got any glass." Horace laughed.

He gazed at a corner-closet with diamond-paned doors.
"That is a perfectly jolly closet, too," he said; "and those are perfect treasures of old dishes." "I think they are rather pretty," said Henry.

He was conscious of an admiration for the old blue-and-white ware with its graceful shapes and quaint decorations savoring of mystery and the Far East, but he realized that his view was directly opposed to his wife's.

This time Sylvia spoke quite in earnest.


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