What was the effect on Mr Gessler of the author’s remark about a certain pair of boots?

When author made remarks on a certain pair of boots, Mr Gessler gazed at him surprisingly for a while expecting the author to withdraw or qualify his statement. He said the some are bad from birth and asked the author to get the pair back and if he could do nothing of them then he would take them off his bill.

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