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Most of them, as they crossed the office, nodded greeting to the tall young man who wore a frock coat and a broad-brimmed hat and stood almost motionless at one side of the rotunda. The National was state Mecca for all kinds of conventions. The reporter studied his date-book. No convention was scheduled for that day. He managed to get a peep at the hotel register.
The name seemed to arrest her fugitive attention. Before she could escape from his mental grasp again he added: "Your date-book is full. Aren't you going to the Novella this morning?" The change in her was something wonderful to see. It was as though she had come out of a trance. She sat up in bed and gazed about blankly.
"Where's Fraulein?" "Fraulein's going to drive Vic over to the Partridges' for luncheon, and I promised Swann I'd talk to him about favors and things for tomorrow night." "Well busy Lizzie! And what have I to do?" Margaret reached for a well-filled date-book. "You were to decide about those alterations, the porch and dining room, you know," said she.
The note procured me an engagement as errand boy at the stage-door and later I rose to the dignity of scene-shifter. How truly typical of this man's greatness, to help lift a homeless lad out of the gutters of London town! "But I am rambling on as though writing an autobiography, to be read when I am gone " Here the entry ceases and the rest of the pages in the old date-book are blank.
Barnes gravely demonstrated the action of the scene to Saint-Prosper, and the soldier became collaborator, "abandoning, as it were," wrote the manager in his autobiographical date-book and diary, "the sword for the pen, and the glow of the Champ de Mars for the glimmer of a kerosene lamp."
Your 'Boy's Kingdom, beginning: "When I was young, I dreamed of knights And dames with silken trains." "Thou shalt have it, mon ami!" And Phazma gaily caught up the refrain, while Straws beat time to the tinkling measures. The last entry in the date-book, or diary, of Barnes seems curiously significant as indicating a knowledge that his end was near.
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