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He paused a moment till the silence was perfect and then he said, with a pretense of reading a notice from a sheet of paper: "Do I?" asked Bruce innocently. "I wish there was a mirror here so I could see how that looks. Here comes François with the bouillon and omelets. Don't let him see me, please, till I've gotten up a better expression." "Oh, that's so," acquiesced Patricia. "I suppose you do have to be there for that private view of the panels.".
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