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A SECOND DATE WITH JOHN
DIEDERMAYER
“Ding dong. He carried a cane and a silk hat with a mourning-band
in one gray-gloved hand; his frock-coat and trousers were admirable; his
handsome face, his black mustache, his prominent brow conveyed an eager
solicitude. She began to tremble violently. “Hello? She’s like, your girlfriend, not mine. He had offered to escort the young lady to England where
she might seek refuge with her relations there, and proposed that the maid
Yolande might serve Miss Charvill. I need a
white man, if only to talk to; and it will be a god send to talk to someone of your
intelligence. “Do you know,” she confessed, “I never thought of that?”
He looked at her as though doubting even now whether she could possibly be in
earnest. The petals
have fallen—the red petals we loved so. You know that I am
practically destitute, without means or any certain knowledge of where my next
meal is coming from. When Claude Du Val was in Newgate thrown,
He carved his name on the dungeon stone;
Quoth a dubsman, who gazed on the shattered wall,
"You have carved your epitaph, Claude Du Val,
With your chisel so fine, tra la!"
"This S wants a little deepening," mused the apprentice, retouching the letter in
question; "ay, that's better. This forthright dame was so excited,
she could not keep still, but paced about the parlour much as Melusine had done
earlier. His eyes were set too close
together. "
"Impossible!" rejoined his mother. “P. We are not
altogether strangers, are we? I feel that under the circumstances I have the right
to offer you my advice, and if necessary my help.
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