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Excerpt from The Masterfolk Wherein Is Attempted the Unravelling, of the Strange Affair of My Lord Wyntwarde of Cavil and Miss. Betty Modeyne
Amidst the untidy litter of torn paper that strewed the bare plank ?oor there stood a large double writing-table, spread with proofs and manuscript and pamphlets and, with his feet In the litter of the floor and his elbows in the litter of the table, sat a gaunt yellow-haired youth, solemnly writing.
Netherby Gomme peered at his work in the waning light of the departing November afternoon; and the deepening dusk that took possession of the shabby room, turning all things to the colour of shadows, strained his attention, drawing long lines about his mouth and pronouncing the pallor of his serious face - the grim mask of the humorist. The slips of paper that were set into the sleeve-ends of his well-brushed threadbare coat to save the soiling of his shirt-cuffs, and the long reach of yellow sock that showed his feet thrust a wrinkled span beyond the original intention of his much-knee'd trousers, marked the ordered untidiness of the literary habit.
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