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Colonel Starbottle’s Client and Other Stories

CHAPTER II
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Will hany good dame or gaffer press the button?
Will YOU, mistress ?" said the Cicerone to a giggling, kerchief-coifed lass.
"Oi soy, Maudlin!--look out--will yer!--It's the soime old gag as them bloomin' knobs you ketched hold of when yer was 'ere las' Whitsuntide," called out the mediaeval 'Arry of the party.
"It is NOT the Galvanic-Magnetic machine in 'is lordship's library," said the Cicerone, severely, "which is a mere toy for infants, and hold-fashioned.

And we have 'ere a much later invention.

I open this little door, I turn this 'andle--called a switch--and, has you perceive, the gallery is hinstantly hilluminated." There was a hoarse cry of astonishment from the assemblage.

The Barbarian felt an awful thrill as this searching, insufferable light of the nineteenth century streamed suddenly upon the up-turned, vacant-eyed, and dull faces of those sightseers of the past.

But there was no responsive gleam in their eyes.
"It be the sun," gasped an old woman in a gray cloak.
"Toime to rouse out, Myryan, and make the foire," said the mediaeval 'Arry.


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