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Abbott looked on, his elbows propped upon his knees, his chin in his

palms, and a quality of ecstatic content in his eyes He was in his

working clothes, picturesque if paint-daubed The h, but just before luncheon the rain clouds had gathered and

settled doith that suddenness known only in high altitudes

The ex-gladiator sat on one of those slender old-leaf and parabolic curves and faded brocade, such as one sees at the

Trianon or upon the stage or in the new home of a new enious Louis invented for the

discomfort of his favorites and the folly of future collectors It creaked

whenever Harrigan sighed, which was often, for he was deeply immersed (and

no better word could be selected to fit his mental condition) in the

baneful book which he had hurled out of thethe night before, only

to retrieve like the good dog that he was To-day his shoes offered no

loophole to criticism; he had very well attended to that His tie

harrey tweed; in

fact, he was the glass of fashion and the mold of form, at least for the

present