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Alex fastened the second of his gold cufflinks and checked himself in the mirror. He wore a navy blazer, Oxford cotton shirt and chinos, and had buffed his leather brogues to a high sheen.
He cast an eye over the furnishings and decor of his suite in the D’oreale Grande Hotel in the Emperors Palace casino complex, and wondered how his resort rooms would compare. Here the first word that popped into his head was extravagance. That wasn’t a bad thing for a casino hotel, he supposed, as the idea was probably to inspire punters to hit the tables and win enough money to deck out their suburban homes like one of Louis XIV’s palaces. The furnishings and the colours were nice, though. He made a mental note to call the hotel’s head office and find out who their interior designer was.
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