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The President

CHAPTER I
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Stepping to the mantel, he took from it a small metal casket, builded to hold jewels.
What should be those gems of price which the metal box protected?
Richard did not strike one as the man to nurse a weakness for barbaric adornment.

A bathrobe is not a costume calculated to teach one the wearer's fineness.

To say best, a bathrobe is but a savage thing.

It is the garb most likely to obscure and set backward even a Walpole or a Chesterfield in any impression of gentility.

In spite of this primitive regalia, however, Richard gave forth an idea of elevation, and as though his ancestors in their civilization had long ago climbed above a level where men put on gold to embellish their worth.


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