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Excerpt from Union Down: A Signal of Distress
Well, yes, was the ready reply, with the oddest of genial laughs; I am interested in a business there - in the ivory business, in a small way.
And the Speaker glanced archly at his earnest hearer, and wondered if his indirect reference to the gaming-table was appreciated. It evidently was not, for the invalid's grave face did not change, and almost immediately he was seized by another violent spell of coughing.
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