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[Duberry <ti...@pa...>]

Ust after she had said she would think of my proposal and without any
formal transition, she drew out of her pocket with an embarrassed hand a
small object wrapped in crumpled white paper. She held it there a moment
and then she asked, "Do you know much about curiosities?" "About
curiosities?" "About antiquities, the old gimcracks that people pay so
much for today. Do you know the kind of price they bring?" I thought I
saw what was coming, but I said ingenuously, "Do you want to buy
something?" "No, I want to sell. What would an amateur give me for
that?" She unfolded the white paper and made a motion for me to take
from her a small oval portrait. I possessed myself of it with a hand of
which I could only hope that she did not perceiv