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The Master Mummer CHAPTER I SHEETS of virgin manuscript paper littered mjr desk, the smoke of much uselessly consumed tobacco hung about the room in a little cloud. Many a time I had dipped my pen in the ink, only to find, myself a few minutes later scrawling ridiculous littler figures upon the margin of my blotting-pad. It was not at all an auspicious start for one who sought immortality. There came a growl presently from the other side of the room, where Mabane, attired in a disreputable smock, with a short bbck pipe in the comer of his mouth, was im Jmliirjmly defacing a small canvas. Mabane was tall aad itir and lean, with a mass of refractory hair whidi was the despair of his barber; a Scotcbnan with keen blue eyes, and humorous mouth amply redeeming his face from the plainness which would otherwise have been its lot Healso was in search of immortality. Make a start for Heaven ssake, A rnold, he imr plored. To look at you is an incitement to laziness The worlds full of things to write about Make ai choice and have done with it Write something, eveiii if you have to tear it up afterwards I turned round in my chair and regarded Mabane
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About the Authour- Edward Phillips Oppenheim (22 October 1866 – 3 February 1946) was an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers. For more eBooks visit www.kartindo.com
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