Lesson 34

A happy discovery

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  • Lesson 34
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  • A happy discovery
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  • What was the 'happy discovery' ?
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  • Antique shops exert a peculiar fascination on a great many people.
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  • The more expensive kind of antique shop
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  • where rare objects are beautifully displayed in glass cases
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  • to keep them free from dust is usually a forbidding place.
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  • But no one has to muster up courage to enter a less pretentious antique shop.
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  • There is always hope that in its labyrinth of musty, dark, disordered rooms
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  • a real rarity will be found amongst the piles of assorted junk that litter the floors.
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  • No one discovers a rarity by chance.
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  • A truly dedicated bargain hunter must have patience,
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  • and above all, the ability to recognize the worth of something when he sees it.
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  • To do this, he must be at least as knowledgeable as the dealer.
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  • Like a scientist bent on making a discovery,
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  • he must cherish the hope that one day he will be amply rewarded.
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  • My old friend, Frank Halliday, is just such a person.
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  • He has often described to me how he picked up a masterpiece for a mere ￡50.
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  • One Saturday morning, Frank visited an antique shop in my neighbourhood.
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  • As he had never been there before, he found a great deal to interest him.
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  • The morning passed rapidly and Frank was about to leave
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  • when he noticed a large packing case lying on the floor.
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  • The dealer told him that it had just come in,
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  • but that he could not be bothered to open it.
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  • Frank begged him to do so and the dealer reluctantly prised it open.
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  • The contents were disappointing.
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  • Apart from an interesting-looking carved dagger,
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  • the box was full of crockery, much of it broken.
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  • Frank gently lifted the crockery out of the box
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  • and suddenly noticed a miniature painting at the bottom of the packing case.
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  • As its composition and line reminded him of an Italian painting he knew well,
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  • he decided to buy it.
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  • Glancing at it briefly the dealer told him that it was worth ￡50.
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  • Frank could hardly conceal his excitement,
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  • for he knew that he had made a real discovery.
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  • The tiny painting proved to be an unknown masterpiece by Correggio
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  • and was worth hundreds and thousands of pounds.