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Excerpt from Monsieur de Phocas: Astarté
D'ailleurs, M. De Phocas ne semblait pas m'apercevoir, daignait-il seulement? Debout près de ma table de travail, il hanchait légère ment dans une pose pleine de grâce et, de l'ex trémité de sa canne, un jonc d'au moins dix louis, dont la pomme, un ivoire vert d'un tra vail bizarre, me requérait, immédiatement, du bout de sa canne donc, M. De Phocas feuilletait un manuscrit posé parmi des papiers et des livres et le lisait de haut, négligemment.
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