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No doubt we all breathed freer when Pilgrim, too, was beached, although it be only confessed in the privacy of the log. With her and her cargo safely stored in the wharf-boat, we sought a hotel, and, regaining our bag of clothing, shipped ahead of us from McKee's Rocks, donned urban attire for an inspection of the city.
I would have written to her also, but it was indeed only this morning that I heard. You will give her that?" "I have kept it for her," I said quietly; and the adieus were over. Lenox again, and bluebirds darting to and fro among the maples. I had reached the hotel at midnight.
"These women what hypocrites they are!" muttered Maltravers to himself; and his lip writhed into a sneer, which had of late often forced away the serene and gracious expression of his earlier years, ere he knew what it was to despise. But Maltravers mistook the woman he dared to scorn. He soon withdrew from the palazzo, and sought his hotel.
Lester, leaving Cincinnati a few days earlier than he expected, had failed to receive her reply; he arrived at Cleveland feeling sadly out of tune with the world. He had a lingering hope that a letter from Jennie might be awaiting him at the hotel, but there was no word from her.
"Nowhere; that is, I was going toward my hotel." "The Continental?" "Yes, your Highness." "Step into the carriage, Monsieur;" the Voice had the ring of command. "I will put you down there. It is the least that I can do to show my gratitude." "I I to ride with your Highness?" he stammered. "O, no! I that is it would scarcely be "
Inez, as one who had lived in the region, was appealed to rather often to say whether this was not the worst she had ever seen. "Oh, I have seen zem much worse," was her ready answer, "but zey did terrible damage. Terrible!" And, on talking with some of the old residents of San Juan, and with the hotel people, Jack and Walter learned that the storm was a most unusual one.
The bill of fare is usually very meagre compared with that of the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York, and every dish in the programme is presented to the guest. The charge for this meal, at first-class houses outside of Paris, is usually four francs, or eighty cents.
As it happened, the lawyer was known to him, Schmidt having had legal charge of the corporation which reconstructed the hotel, so it was impossible for an employé to be reticent with him about the matters which were discussed forthwith. "Mr. Steingall gone?" inquired Schmidt affably. "Yes, sir.
The Hotel Ravenna was rather more of a pretentious establishment than Selwood had expected it to be. It was typically Italian in outward aspect.
Blaisdell then ordered his clerk to take another carriage and follow them, remaining at the hotel long enough to ascertain all he possibly could concerning their movements, after which he was to report at the office. Turning once more toward the crowd, Mr. Blaisdell expected to meet Mr. Wilson, but to his astonishment and perplexity, he was nowhere to be seen.
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