9781787372597 by Anonymous

Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-28T00:00:00+00:00

De Barsac shrugged his shoulders as he rose to his feet and moved towards the door. At the same time he picked up a heavy object in bronze and placed it under his arm.

"What have you got there?" Dorn asked.

"Oh, that's the cast for Gibson," de Barsac explained. "A fine piece of work, though I say it myself. It's complete in every detail, and you could put it on to the scale without finding it vary a hundredth part of an inch. Upon my word, Sir Watney ought to pay me for this."

They drifted into the house presently for dinner, where they found the strange house party had been augmented by another guest, a tall thin man with an eager, enthusiastic face and a wonderful flow of words, who was introduced as Mr. Stafford Hatton, the popular novelist. The individual in question seemed to be thoroughly at home, which indeed he was, for he was eminently a Bohemian of the old-fashioned type and accepted all the gifts of the gods with a cheerful alacrity. He helped himself from time to time to the wines that went round the table and dilated at great length upon his work.

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