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foul. "Doesn't he have classic features, Hed?" he asked his wife.
"He looks like Maurice in bronze!" Mrs. Sear exclaimed. "He could be your younger brother, Maurice." She too, and her voice, were dry and not unhandsome, but where her husband seemedcured, like supplest vellum, Mrs. Sear was brittle -- sharp-edged as the stones on her ears and hands, but more fragile.
Stoker affirmed the resemblance. "George's got more in common with me thansome brothers I could mention."
"You're really Max Spielman's protégé?" Dr. Sear asked smoothly. "Wemust have some interviews."
"And evenings," Mrs. Sear insisted, narrowing her bright eyes and touching my fleece with her long red nails. "Something moreintime than this madhouse of Maurice's. Are you matriculating, or just on tour?"
"Ma'am?" Despite my liquor I felt at ease and self-possessed, they so obviously admired me. But I had difficulty following conversations. It occurred to me to remark that
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