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himself. He made a gesture towards the
window-pane as if he wanted to grab the old picture,
then he shook his head dejectedly, put his hand
in his pocket and moved on. He greatly admired
a fine old Cromwell clock at Hunt and Roskell’s
but with a shrug of his shoulders he said he did
not care what time it was, he could besides guess
it by looking at the sun. In front of Asprey’s
display of all imaginable bibelots and trinkets
of silver and gold and precious stones he said he
felt sick and declared he would smash the
window-pane and all that was behind it if he had to look
at all this confounded rubbish any longer. As
we passed before the tailor to His Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, he said he thought old
clothes were more comfortable to wear than new
ones. As we moved on up the street he became
more and more indifferent and seemed to be
more interested in stopping to pat the numerous
dogs trotting behind their owners on the trottoir
than to explore the shop windows. When we
reached Oxford Street at last he had an apple in
one hand and a bunch of lilies of the valley in the
other. He said he wanted nothing else of all that
he had seen in Bond Street, except perhaps the
little Aberdeen terrier who had been sitting
waiting patiently for his master outside Asprey’s.
He began to eat his apple, and said it was a very
good apple, and looked tenderly at his bunch of
lilies of the valley saying they reminded him of
his old home in Sweden. He said he hoped I
had finished my experiment and asked me if I
had found out what was the matter with him—
was it the head?
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