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"Will you favour me by looking at it, young gentleman? " said the petitioner.
_It_ was a most curious little model, which the petitioner had taken reverently out of a handbag. He was a hungry, eager-looking man, in a battered bowler, shabby frockcoat, and a primordial "comforter" which might have been made for Job.