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E des Deux Mondes_ on the corner of the table, and the absence of all
bows or draperies from the furniture. Miss Kimpsey's own parlor was
excrescent with bows and draperies. "She is above them," thought Miss
Kimpsey, with a little pang. The room was so dark that she could not see
how old the _Revue_ was; she did not know either that it was always
there, that unexceptionable Parisian periodical, with Dante in the
original and red leather, _Academy Notes_, and the _Nineteenth Century_,
all helping to furnish Mrs. Leslie Bell's drawing-room in a manner in
accordance with her tastes; but if she had, Miss Kimpsey would have been
equally impressed. It took intellect even to select these things. The
other books, Miss Kimpsey noticed by the numbers labelled on their
backs, were mostly from the circulating library--"David Grieve," "Cometh
up as a Flower," "The Earthly Paradise," Ruskin's "Stones of Venice,"
Marie Corelli's "Romance of Two Worlds." The mantelpiece was arranged in
geometrical disorder, but it had a gilt clock under a glass shade
precisely in the middle. When the gilt clock indicated, in a mincing
way, that Miss Kimpsey had been kept waiting fifteen minutes, Mrs. Bell
came in. She had fastened her last button and assumed the expression
appropriate to Miss 
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