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 of the books wanted, as we should be at the notion of going to a bookseller's to read his books.

This is how the matter was arranged. Through the telephone he began a conversation with the custodian of the proper department of the library, gave the numbers of the books, and expressed a wish to have them forwarded at once.

"They ought to be here in the course of the afternoon," said he; and we resumed the discussion interrupted by the question of books. So interested were we both in the subject, that our first intimation of the rapid flight of time was the appearance of Reva. She had meantime returned, and now came to seek her father for the mid-day meal, which he loved to partake of in her society.