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not look like a man who could be coaxed into a
dressing-gown. In front of his own palatial resi-
dence, I know him to be a quiet and respectable
middle-aged business-man, but it is from my back
window that my heart warms toward him in his
shirt-sleeved simplicity. So I sit and watch him
in the twilight as he reads gravely, and wonder
sometimes, when he looks up, squares his chest, and
folds his paper thoughtfully over his knee, whether
he does n't fancy he hears the letting down of bars,
or the tinkling of bells, as the cows come home
and stand lowing for him at the gate.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Luck of Roaring Camp Susy: A Story of the Plains. Contributors: Bret Harte - author. Publisher: P. F. Collier & Son. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1892. Page Number: 252.
    
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