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Literary Lapses
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Stephen Leacock
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"I
do
not
know,"
he
went
on,
"at
what
precise
time
Fifty-Six
came
into
my
life.
I
could
indeed
find
it
out
by
examining
my
books,
but
I
have
never
troubled
to
do
so.
Naturally
I
took
no
more
interest
in
him
at
first
than
in
any
other
of
my
customers--less,
perhaps,
since
he
never
in
the
course
of
our
connection
brought
his
clothes
to
me
himself
but
always
sent
them
by
a
boy.
When
I
presently
perceived
that
he
was
becoming
one
of
my
regular
customers,
I
allotted
to
him
his
number,
Fifty-Six,
and
began
to
speculate
as
to
who
and
what
he
was.
Before
long
I
had
reached
several
conclusions
in
regard
to
my
unknown
client.
The
quality
of
his
linen
showed
me
that,
if
not
rich,
he
was
at
any
rate
fairly
well
off.
I
could
see
that
he
was
a
young
man
of
regular
Christian
life,
who
went
out
into
society
to
a
certain
extent;
this
I
could
tell
from
his
sending
the
same
number
of
articles
to
the
laundry,
from
his
washing
always
coming
on
Saturday
night,
and
from
the
fact
that
he
wore
a
dress
shirt
about
once
a
week.
In
disposition
he
was
a
modest,
unassuming
fellow,
for
his
collars
were
only
two
inches
high."
I
stared
at
Ah-Yen
in
some
amazement,
the
recent
publications
of
a
favourite
novelist
had
rendered
me
familiar
with
this
process
of
analytical
reasoning,
but
I
was
prepared
for
no
such
revelations
from
my
Eastern
friend.
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