Andre started to unhook the pot, burned his fingers, and,…

Andre started to unhook the pot, burned his fingers, and, after wrapping a Charvet silk handkerchief around its greasy handle, carried it off gingerly…

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Eleanor Medill Patterson, Glass houses (1926), p.214

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