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Sir Clement stood before a looking-glass in the library surveying himself with a certain saturnine humour. He was just as fond of analysing himself as other people, and he had just come to the conclusion that there was a deal to be said from the Darwinian point of view.
"Is it the morning-coat or the top-hat? " he asked himself. "How terribly like a dissipated old ape I look, to be sure! And yet in a velvet dinner-jacket I am quite -- well, picturesque. On the whole, that is better than being handsome. Ah, somebody is going to suffer for this! Come in."