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This armchair, of old-fashioned make, had lost an arm -- the screw remained sticking up, but the woodwork on that side was gone. It had been accidentally broken some ten years since; yet, although he used the chair every day, the arm had never been mended. Awkward as it was, he let it alone.
"Hum! where's The Standard, then? " he said presently, as he nibbled his cheese and sipped the ale which he had placed on the hob.