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His lips were parted; he was about to make a statement or a confession. Just then a tall commissionaire leaned over from behind and touched him on the shoulder. "For Monsieur le Baron de Grost," he announced, handing Peter a note. Peter glanced towards his wife. "You permit me?" he murmured, breaking the seal. Violet shrugged her shoulders ever so slightly.
I is meet Dick Henderson on Winnipeg las' year, w'en I mak' paddle on dem Factor Brigade, an' dose High Commissionaire. He is tol' me wan night pret' late he wake up all de queeck he can w'en he is hear wan noise in dose cabane, an' he is see wan Injun, lak' phantome 'gainst de moon to de door. Dick Henderson he is 'sleep, he don' know w'at he mus' do.
Having sent this letter by a commissionaire to the man who, in all Paris, most delighted in such practical jokes in the slang of artists, a charge Lousteau made a great show of settling the Muse of Sancerre in his apartment.
Ten minutes had not succeeded the promulgation of this decree when Rosine's French pantoufles were again heard shuffling along the corridor. "Mademoiselle," said she, "I would not for a five-franc piece go into that classe again just now: Monsieur's lunettes are really terrible; and here is a commissionaire come with a message from the Athenee.
At this moment the brethren were interrupted by a ring at the bell, and Morris, going timorously to the door, received from the hands of a commissionaire a letter addressed in the hand of Michael. Its contents ran as follows: MORRIS FINSBURY, if this should meet the eye of, he will hear of SOMETHING TO HIS ADVANTAGE at my office, in Chancery Lane, at 10 A.M. tomorrow.
She not only gave me the required direction, but called a commissionaire, and bid him take charge of me, and not my trunk, for that was gone to the custom-house. I followed this man along a rudely-paved street, lit now by a fitful gleam of moonlight; he brought me to the inn.
Into the Casino we marched in triumph. At once, both in the person of the commissionaire and in the persons of the footmen, there sprang to life the same reverence as had arisen in the lacqueys of the hotel. Yet it was not without some curiosity that they eyed us.
A one-horse barouche was called, and a commissionaire a kind of guide or interpreter, who assists strangers in doing their business, or in seeing the sights of the city presented himself to be employed; but Dr. Winstock, who was familiar with the place, declined his services. "What was that man?" asked Paul, as the carriage drove off to the Rue des Soeurs Noires, where the Dominican Church of St.
And as the commissary was writing it down from his dictation, he added suddenly: "Du Pontel in two words, if you please, Monsieur le Commissionaire!"
But now she no longer looked in the direction from which the commissionaire had to come, but her glances followed the crowded omnibuses and trams on their way to the suburbs. Then the captain, whom she had seen a short time before, struck her attention again, as he was just jumping on to a tram, a cigarette in his mouth. He no longer bore the slightest resemblance to her dead father.
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