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Mr. Jessop duly arrived, and found, to his amazement, that his fish and fruit had been forestalled; and there were other and yet greater surprises in store for him.
He listened to Madeline's plainly told tale, with his glass rigidly screwed into his eye, his mouth pinched up as if he had an unusually intricate "case" under his consideration.