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If it orth our while, I could keep you till an hour beyond

to a thousand such absurdities as these But

finally our friend Theodore, who prided hi quite beyond his patience

"I offer any wager you like," cried he, setting down his glass so

forcibly as to break the ste I find out

the le at nothing over their wine; so, after a

little er of considerable amount was actually laid, the

money staked, and Theodore left to choose his own ed it I know not, nor is it of any great iend Thethe

doorkeeper,--or possibly he preferred cla in at the

But, at any rate, that very evening, while the exhibition was going

forward in the hall, Theodore contrived to gain ad-room whither the Veiled Lady was accustomed to

retire at the close of her perfor, I

suppose, to the stifled huuish the deep tones of the ht to appear more dark and intricate, by his mystic