AND HIS FRIEND VERDANT GREEN.
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on the other side of the brightly polished counter, who was evidently Mossoo's wife; at any rate, he called her "Thérèse," and she addressed him as "Auguste."
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To this elegant lady there entered a sprucely attired gentleman, who, with much gesticulation and shoulder-shrugging, engaged her, over the counter, in a lively