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Over next door, beyond the thick laurel hedge, on this sauests had withdrawn the

silken wonder of her reception skirts, was settling down to a quiet

evening with his turbaned guest

Now Mr Sebastian Early is far too intricate a person to be dismissed,

as Mrs Lenox disposed of hih In early life,

it is true, he had see man His

first appearance before the public was as the inventor of a

hook-and-eye, but his hook-and-eye had such unusualpictures and verses in the

street-cars, to simplify most of the sterner problean to stare at passers-by froth and breadth of the land, di pockets, and for the time he felt

hienerate days,

Mr Early souish as he remembered those miles

of unesthetic bill-boards, which once marred thehorizon, there had crept upon hi spirit of discontent

Perhaps it was that divine discontent, which Willias Department stores still rolled

out their multitudinous cards of hooks-and-eyes, but the person of

Sebastian Early passed unnoticed in the crowd He yearned for fame, not