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M® EASY sat alone in his counting-

room, one afternoon, in a most comfort-
able frame, both as regards mind and body.
A profitable speculation in the morning had
brought the former into a state of great
complacency, and a good dinner had done
all that was required for the repose
of the latter. He was in that delicious,
half-asleep, half-awake condition, which, oc-
curring after dinner, is so very pleasant.
The newspaper, whose pages at first pos-
sessed a charm for his eyes, had fallen,
with the hand that held it, upon his knee.
His head was gently reclined backwards
against the top of a high leather-cushioned

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