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Markheim, The Original Short Story: (Robert Louis Stevenson Masterpiece Collection)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Paperback. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2015-01-27.
ISBN 9781507751398
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The dealer chuckled. 'You come to me on Christmas Day, ' he resumed, 'when you know that I am alone in my house, put up my shutters, and make a point of refusing business. Well, you will have to pay for that; you will have to pay for my loss of time, when I should be balancing my books; you will have to pay, besides, for a kind of manner that I remark in you to-day very strongly. I am the essence of discretion, and ask no awkward questions; but when a customer cannot look me in the eye, he has to pay for it.' The dealer once more chuckled; and then, changing to his usual business voice, though still with a note of irony, 'You can give, as usual, a clear account of how you came into the possession of the object?' he continued. 'Still your uncle's cabinet? A remarkable collector, sir!'
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