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The spirit moving him he would much have liked to
follow Jack Tar’s good example and leave the likeness
there for a very few minutes to speak for itself on the plea
he so that the other could drink in the beauty for himself,
her stage presence being, frankly, a treat in itself which the
camera could not at all do justice to. But it was scarcely
professional etiquette so. Though it was a warm pleasant
sort of a night now yet wonderfully cool for the season
considering, for sunshine after storm. And he did feel a
kind of need there and then to follow suit like a kind of
inward voice and satisfy a possible need by moving a
motion. Nevertheless he sat tight just viewing the slightly
soiled photo creased by opulent curves, none the worse
for wear however, and looked away thoughtfully with the
intention of not further increasing the other’s possible
embarrassment while gauging her symmetry of heaving
embonpoint. In fact the slight soiling was only an added
charm like the case of linen slightly soiled, good as new,
much better in fact with the starch out. Suppose she was
gone when he? I looked for the lamp which she told me
came into his mind but merely as a passing fancy of his
because he then recollected the morning littered bed
etcetera and the book about Ruby with met him pike
hoses (sic) in it which must have fell down sufficiently
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