Hi, all!

Scott Fitzgerald probably likes the word "patent".

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Now, in the reaction, he was running down
like an overwound clock. Recovering himself in
a minute he opened for us two hulking patent
cabinets which held his massed suits and
dressing-gowns and ties, and his shirts,
piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high.
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What did he mean here?

Bye, all!
Alexander Koryagin

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