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Is it still no? Very well then; to-morrow, then, you may expect an official notice. I wish you good-evening." He bowed; he was really going, for his hand was already on the door-knob. But Madame d'Argeles detained him with a gesture. "One word more," she said, in a voice hoarse with emotion. He scarcely deigned to come back, and he made no attempt to conceal his impatience.
He and Rush had commented on the difference as they drove in to-day. "Oh, Rush came in with you, did he?" she observed. He flushed and stammered over the admission and it was easy to guess why. The fact that her brother, as well as Wallace, was lurking in the background somewhere waiting for results gave an official cast to his call that was rather asinine. She came to the rescue.
In front go a body of musicians with blare of the straight Roman trumpet and the scream of the flageolets; behind these comes the high official who has charge of the particular festival.
The official waves him off, and says something. "What does he say?" "He tells you to sit down on that bench till he is ready." Soon the Frenchman has run over his big waybills, and turns to us. "I want two places in the diligence, coupe," etc, etc, says the American. This remark being lost on the official, I explain to him as well as I can what is wanted, at first, two places in the coupe.
Well, I hope that after your reception we have done with ceremony; and that you will forget that I am, at present, a civil official with the temporary rank of commissioner, and regard and treat me as you might any young officer who had been given a passage in your brig. I have led a pretty rough life, and hate anything like ceremony.
The Governor General and the Intruder. "I am Captain Marti!" The Betrayal. The Ex-Smuggler as Pilot. The Pardon and the Reward. Tacon's Stewardship and Official Career. Monopoly of Theatricals. A Negro Festival.
The Queen added that she knew her situation; that she had often calculated her income, and the expenses occasioned by her place at Court; that both husband and wife having no other fortune than their official salaries, could not possibly have saved anything, however differently people might think at Paris. M. Campan remained till midnight with the Duchess to see her enter her carriage.
In this country too little is known about this subject, and the appointment of an official "with power" is the first step toward knowledge. The suggestions made as to the way to deal with sewage are also mostly good, but it is doubtful whether general purification can wisely be enforced in the present state of sanitary science.
All, therefore, that I propose to do is, having these official statements before me, to tell the stories that they contain, as shortly and as clearly as I can, adding no comment of my own but what is necessary to explain the facts in question.
The men now drew their benches to the table, and Rayner and Oliver, taking their places, fell to with the rest, there being no necessity, under such circumstances, for keeping up official ceremony. Supper was quickly got through, and each man stowed away the remainder of the provisions in his pockets. While they went to work with their knives at the bars, Rayner and Oliver examined the beds.
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