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"Don't let me disturb you--I only came to look for my eye-glass, which I
think I must have dropped".
"I see it, sir," said I, springing forward and picking it up; "how lucky
none of us happened to tread on it and break it!"
"Thank you, Fairlegh, it is an old friend, and I should have been sorry
to have any harm happen to it," replied he, as he turned to leave the
room, without having once raised his eyes from the ground. Coleman, who
up to this moment had considered a discovery inevitable, gave me a sign
to open the door, and, believing the danger over, was proceeding to
relieve his feelings by making a hideous face at his retiring tutor,
when the bookcase, affected no doubt by the additional weight placed
upon it, suddenly gave a loud crack.
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