”
So they went this time to the Rococo, in Germain Street, and up-stairs to a
landing upon which stood a bald-headed waiter with whiskers like a French
admiral and discretion beyond all limits in his manner. ”
“Well!”
“He greeted me effusively. During the previous night he had been restless; and in the
lonely dragging hours his thoughts had raced in an endless circle—action
without progress. "How very fortunate it is," he observed, "that I happened to call upon Mr. Yes. ”
The talk was animated, and remained always brilliant in form even when it
ceased to be brilliant in substance. More than half the city perished. Proper enough now,
when he could not help himself, but the habit would be formed; and when he
was strong again it would become the normal role, hers to give and his to
receive. “I HAVE—had one or two talks with him, daddy. He won’t have menservants inside the house, and his collection of carriages
is only fit for a museum—where most of his friends ought to be, by-the-bye. “Well,” he said at last slowly, “I’ll pay it. Feels as if I’ve
been dashing back and forth about the whole country, if you want to know. He could
not see these two shrinking misses capering about in a nun’s habit and
brandishing a defiant pistol.
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