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Meanwhile he redoubled his attentions to the catalogue . -LRB- Could there be anything more unreasonable than that catalogue _ raisonné _ ? -RRB- He had frequently got up and worked at it for an hour or two before breakfast , lifted out of bed by the bounding of his heart . But whereas he had been in the habit of leaving it at any time between nine o'clock and midnight , he now sat up with it till the small hours of the morning . This extreme devotion was necessary if he was to finish it by the twenty-seventh . It was now the fifteenth . He had told Miss Harden that he could work better by himself , and apparently she had taken him at his word ; she had left him to finish the catalogue alone .