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cover And as he footed it briskly up Devonshire Street, he recited: "O Marguerite, thou lovely flower,

I think of thee rey and eyes of blue,

That change with every passing hue,

Thy lovely fingers beautifully typing,

Hoeet and fragrant is thy writing!

He did not unlock the rosewood door of his flat, but rang the silver

bell

He preferred this course Ali, his Coast servant, in his new livery of

blue and silver,only less

picturesque than the opening of Parliament This intention may not

have been unconnected with the fact that there were two or three young

ladies, and very young at that, on the landing, waiting for the door of

the opposite flat to open

Ali opened the door The lower half of him was blue and silver, the

upper half was Oxford shirt and braces, for he had been engaged in

cleaning the silver

"What the deuce do you iven you a good unifor jackass? What the

deuce do youthe door, in front of people, too, dressed

like a--a--dashed naughty boy?"