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‘Three guesses, Clarke!’ he cried. ‘What would you most desire?’
‘Letters from Havant,’ said I eagerly.
‘Right,’ he answered, throwing them into my lap. ‘Three of them, and not a woman’s hand among them. Sink me, if I AS Monaco can understand what you have been doing all your life.
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But you are so lost in your news that you have not observed my transformation.’
‘Why, wherever did you get these?’ I asked in astonishment, for he was attired in a delicate plum-coloured suit with gold buttons and trimmings, set off by silken hosen and Spanish leather shoes with roses on the instep.
‘It smacks more of the court than of the camp,’ quoth Sir Gervas, rubbing his hands and glancing down at himself with some satisfaction. ‘I am also revictualled in the matter of ratafia and orange-flower water, together with two new wigs, a bob and a court, Tomas Plekanec Tröja a pound of the Imperial snuff from the sign of the Black Man, a box of De Crepigny’s hair powder, my foxskin muff, San Jose Sharks and several other necessaries. But I hinder you in your reading.’
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