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You can tell me nothing about them I don't know." "Shall I tell you what I think about that couple, Monsieur Bombarnac?" "What do you think?" "That as soon as they reach Pekin, Miss Bluett will become Mrs. Ephrinell." "And may Heaven bless their union, Popof, for they are really made for each other." I saw that on this subject Popof and I held similar ideas.
There the Russian cookery will give place to the Chinese, and although the name does not recall the nectar and ambrosia of Olympus, it is probable that we shall not lose by the change. Ephrinell is in his usual place. Without going as far as familiarity, it is obvious that a close intimacy, founded on a similarity in tastes and aptitudes exists between Miss Horatia Bluett and the Yankee.
"Browning, King & Company in seventeen cities; "Schuman, Kennedy, Posner, Talbot Company, Jordan-Marsh & Company, Leopold Morse Company, McCullough & Parker in Boston; "George Muse Company in Atlanta; "Mullen & Bluett of Los Angeles; "Becker of San Francisco; "Burkhardt of Cincinnati; "Lazarus, and Meyer Israel of New Orleans;
"Really, sir," he said, "if you knew me better, you would feel that I am likely neither to receive nor do harm by remaining here between this and Easter." "What! remain here, sir, with all the young men about?" asked Dr. Bluett, with astonishment, "with all the young men about you, sir?" Charles really had not a word to say; he did not know himself in so novel a position.
Fulk Ephrinell, of the firm of Messrs. Strong, Bulbul & Co., of New York City, has the honor to invite you to his wedding with Miss Horatia Bluett, of the firm of Messrs. Holmes-Holme, London, which will take place in the dining car on this the 22d of May, at nine o'clock precisely. The Reverend Nathaniel Morse, of Boston, U.S.A., will officiate. "Miss Horatia Bluett, of the firm of Messrs.
What astonishes me is that the proprietor of this little book does not seem to read it from right to left. Is it not written in Chinese characters? We must see into this! On two adjoining seats are Ephrinell and Miss Horatia Bluett. Their talk is of nothing but figures.
As to those going through to Pekin, I have no doubt of Ephrinell and Miss Horatia Bluett nor the German baron, nor the two Chinese, nor Major Noltitz, nor the Caternas, nor even for the haughty gentleman whose bony outline I perceive in the corner of the second car. As to these travelers who are not going across the frontier, they are of most perfect insignificance in my eyes.
"Monsieur Bombarnac," he said, "I have to ask a favor of you." Eh! I thought, this Yankee knows where to find me when he wants me. "Only too happy, I can assure you," said I. "What is it about?" "I want you to be a witness " "An affair of honor? And with whom, if you please?" "Miss Horatia Bluett." "You are going to fight Miss Bluett!" I exclaimed, with a laugh. "Not yet. I am going to marry her."
"The two souls that blend together Flesh of my flesh Increase and multiply " In my opinion he had much better have got to work like a notary: "Before us, there has been drawn up a deed of arrangement regarding Messrs. Ephrinell, Bluett & Co. My thought remained unfinished. There are shouts from the engine. The brakes are suddenly applied with a scream and a grind.
As I return I meet Ephrinell, who is coming back to his traveling companion. He shakes my hand Yankee fashion. I tell him that Miss Horatia Bluett has given me news of him. "Oh!" says he, "what a woman yonder! What a splendid saleswoman! One of those English " "Who are good enough to be Americans!" I add. "Wait a bit!" he replies, with a significant smile.
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