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"I rather think," said Jacob, taking his pipe from his mouth, "it's in Virgil," and pushing back his chair, he went to the window.
The rashest drivers in the world are, certainly, the drivers of post- office vans. Swinging down Lamb's Conduit Street, the scarlet1 van rounded the corner by the pillar box in such a way as to graze the kerb and make the little girl who was standing2 on tiptoe to post a letter look up, half frightened, half curious. She paused with her hand in the mouth of the box; then dropped her letter and ran away. It is seldom only that we see a child on tiptoe with pity--more often a dim discomfort3, a grain of sand in the shoe which it's scarcely worth while to remove--that's our feeling, and so--Jacob turned to the bookcase.
Long ago great people lived here, and coming back from Court past midnight stood, huddling5 their satin skirts, under the carved door-posts while the footman roused himself from his mattress6 on the floor, hurriedly fastened the lower buttons of his waistcoat, and let them in. The bitter eighteenth-century rain rushed down the kennel7. Southampton Row, however, is chiefly remarkable8 nowadays for the fact that you will always find a man there trying to sell a tortoise to a tailor. "Showing off the tweed, sir; what the gentry9 wants is something singular to catch the eye, sir--and clean in their habits, sir!" So they display their tortoises.
At Mudie's corner in Oxford10 Street all the red and blue beads11 had run together on the string. The motor omnibuses were locked. Mr. Spalding going to the city looked at Mr. Charles Budgeon bound for Shepherd's Bush. The

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baton
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intercourse
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conceal
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