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Remember that knowledge of evil was the prelude to the Fall. Well, good-bye. 'Won't you stay to lunch? 'No, thanks, I never lunch frightful waste of time. I shall drop in at the Haute Gomme and take a cup of tea later on. The Haute Gomme was a new club in Piccadilly, which Maulevrier and some of his friends affected.
I was told of it all this morning at the Haute Gomme by a man I can rely upon, a really good fellow, who would not leave me in the dark about my sister's danger when all the smoking-rooms in Pall Mall were sniggering about it. My first impulse was to take the train for Cowes; but then I knew if I went alone I should let my temper get the better of me.
They stopped in front of the Haute Gomme, where they picked up Sir George Kirkbank and Colonel Delville, a big man with a patriarchal head, supposed to be one of the finest whist players in London, and to make a handsome income by his play.
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It is just the period when Paris, crowded with economical strangers, English or German the former on their return, perhaps, from Switzerland, the latter enjoying their vacation after their manner mourns the absence of her own gay world. The haute gomme the swells, the upper ten are still in the provinces.
The house was gorgeous in all the glory of the very latest fashions in upholstery; hall Algerian; dining-room Pompeian; drawing-room Early Italian; music-room Louis Quatorze; billiard-room mediaeval English. The dinner was as magnificent as dinner can be made. Three-fourths of the guests were the haute gomme of the financial world, and perspired gold. The other third belonged to a class which Mr.
'It's as settled a business as the entries and bets for next year's Derby, said one lounger to another in the smoking-room of the Haute Gomme. 'Play or pay, don't you know. Lady Kirkbank and Lesbia had both written to Lady Maulevrier, Lesbia writing somewhat coldly, very briefly, and in a half defiant tone, to the effect that she had accepted Mr.
"Little Duckie's a sensible chap. What better place can there be to play in than that nice cool pond?" And all the fishes swimming around, from the big pickerel down to the littlest "minnie," waggled their fins and tails to show they agreed too, while the froggies on the lily-pad croaked: "Gomme on gomme on!" They were giving little Duckie a warm invitation to play in the water, you see.
Near this is the quilted armour of the Burmese General Maha Bundoola, killed in 1824. At the other end of the room is a large bell from Burmah, presented by the late General Sir William Gomme, G.C.B., and near it are two figures with Japanese armour, one of them presented to Charles II when prince by the Mogul.
'I should be charmed, said Don Gomez, 'if I thought my friend Smithson wanted me. Would you really like to have me, Smithson? 'I should be enchanted. 'And there is room on the drag? 'Room enough for half-a-dozen. I am only taking Sir George Kirkbank and Colonel Delville whom we are to pick up at the Haute Gomme and Mr. and Mrs. Mostyn, who are in the stalls.
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