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SEVENTH—Dick Danvers presents his Petition
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William Clodd, mopping his brow, laid down the screwdriver1, and stepping back, regarded the result of his labours with evident satisfaction.
“It looks like a bookcase,” said William Clodd. “You might sit in the room for half an hour and never know it wasn’t a bookcase.”
What William Clodd had accomplished2 was this: he had had prepared, after his own design, what appeared to be four shelves laden3 with works suggestive of thought and erudition. As a matter of fact, it was not a bookcase, but merely a flat board, the books merely the backs of volumes that had long since found their way into the paper-mill. This artful deception5 William Clodd had screwed upon a cottage piano standing6 in the corner of the editorial office of Good Humour. Half a dozen real volumes piled upon the top of the piano completed the illusion. As William Clodd had proudly remarked, a casual visitor might easily have been deceived.
“If you had to sit in the room while she was practising mixed scales, you’d be quickly undeceived,” said the editor of Good Humour, one Peter Hope. He spoke7 bitterly.
“You are not always in,” explained Clodd. “There must be hours when she is here alone, with nothing else to do. Besides, you will get used to it after a while.”
“You, I notice, don’t try to get used to it,” snarled8 Peter Hope. “You always go out the moment she commences.”
“A friend of mine,” continued William Clodd, “worked in an office over a piano-shop for seven years, and when the shop closed, it nearly ruined his business; couldn’t settle down to work for want of it.”
“Why doesn’t he come here?” asked Peter Hope. “The floor above is vacant.”
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sarcastically
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