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The Magic City

CHAPTER V
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'I've had a great deal of experience,' he said; 'you couldn't have chosen better.

You see, I'm master of the subject of dress.

I am able to give my whole mind to it; my own dress being fixed by law and not subject to changes of fashion leaves me free to think for others.

And I think deeply.

But I see that you can think for yourself.' You have no idea how jolly Philip looked in the mail coat and mailed hood--just like a Crusader.
At the doorway of the dressing-room he met Lucy in a short white dress and a coronal of pearls round her head.


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