Old Nick had taken out a cambric handkerchief, one of…

Old Nick had taken out a cambric handkerchief, one of a set of twelve he had bought a year ago, if you call it buying, at the establishment of M. Charvet in Paris…

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P. G. Wodehouse, French Leave, (1956), p.182

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