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"But my dear chap, you told me just now that there were no more in the house."
"Neither were there; at least, not ordinary cards. But Sir Walter produces a most amazing pack which he had got hold of in China during his wanderings there. Every card on the thinnest ivory, my boy, and the designs in the most amazing colours. You never saw anything like them.