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It was arranged that Vaudrey should wait for her at the entrance with a hired carriage and take her to Rue Prony. She wrote to him that she could not leave the house. A slight headache. Uncle Kayser undertook to have the letter taken by a commissionaire. "Unless you would rather have me go to the ministry!" "Are you mad?" Marianne said. "That is true, it would be immoral."
Hampton, and Phyllis had all been bundled away to Ostend, in a sunken identity. The house in which the cause of disturbance had so long been unreasonably happy was closed. The servants had been dismissed, and a commissionaire and his wife lived in the basement.
If she had not insisted upon his going out for a taxicab, the man who was loitering about would probably have never got hold of him." The detective glanced up furtively at the speaker. He seemed to reflect for a moment. "I gathered," he said, "in conversation with the commissionaire, that Miss Hyslop was a little impatient that night.
At the end of an hour you discover that the soi disant commissionaire will transact all this affair for a few francs; and, after a tiresome wait in a filthy room, jostled, elbowed, and trampled upon, by boors with sabots, you adjourn to your inn, and begin to feel that you are not in England. Our little party had but few of the miseries here recounted to contend with.
"You speak English," said the commissionaire. "Why! good God! do you?" asked Mr. P., with astonishment. "I speaks every languages, sare," replied the other, "and we will use the English, if you please. But Monsieur speaks tres bien the French language." "Are you speaking English now?" asked Mr. Potiphar. The commissionaire answered him that he was, and Mr.
"Commissionaire, mi ladi," sung out a small shrill treble from the midst of a crowded cock-boat, nearly swamped beneath our paddle-wheel. What a scene of bustle, confusion, and excitement does the deck of a steamer present upon such an occasion. Every one is running hither or thither.
He watched the vehicle roll away, and then scowled at the commissionaire, who waited expectantly for a tip. "As beautiful as a dream," he thought, savagely, "but with a heart of ice at least to me. Will I never be able to melt her?"
She had never felt so humiliated as at the moment when, sending for the commissionaire, she heard from him the exact account of how he had waited, and how afterwards he had been told there was no answer. Anna felt humiliated, insulted, but she saw that from her point of view Countess Lidia Ivanovna was right. Her suffering was the more poignant that she had to bear it in solitude.
Such a pother! We took a commissionaire, a respectable-looking man, in a cloak, who said his name was Salvator Rosa; and he engaged to show us whatever was interesting in Genoa.
The commissionaire poked them with his stick, exhorting them to get up; the constable himself assisted him, and the music stopped. In the meantime, Solem, acting with the better part of valor, slipped out of the room and did not return. Gradually the fallen couples got to their feet again, rubbing their shins, dusting off their clothes, some laughing, others swearing.
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