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Excerpt from The Work of Our Hands
He drew the bowl towards him, and rearranged the brilliant mass of bloom with those deft, artistic, woman's fingers. Every perception was awake, every faculty strained to supremest tension; the moment's caressing of his long-stemmed favourites soothed him.
He looked critically about the room at the heavy Oriental rug as baf?ing and elusive in pattern and colouring as the philosophy of the race to which its weavers belonged - at the long row of windows which gave such broad expansive effect of light and last, at the fire, around which those human pieces on his individual chess-board had lounged at ease, and smoked his choice cigars.
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