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"To tell the truth, I came down to hear that promising protege of yours speak on national affairs. I understand you're pushing his bills along." Mr. Bascom, with great deliberation, shut one of his little eyes. "So long," he said, "come and see me when you get time." Austen went slowly down the street and entered the smoke-clouded lobby of the Pelican.
Yet she did not desist from her strange search, and at last, at the sixth shop, her question was answered by a deep bass voice from the far end of a smoke-clouded den. "Hogshead Geoffroy? Here!" and heaving a sigh of relief Berthe went inside the shop. When you want to see M. "Hogshead" Geoffroy, your procedure is simplicity itself.
"I must admit, though," she added, with an odd note in her voice, "that I admire his good sense in never accepting John's invitations to the house." And then, suddenly, to the consternation of her companion, her eyes filled with tears. The Interpreter looked away toward the beautiful country beyond the squalid Plats, the busy city, the smoke-clouded Mill.
The shadowy ambulances, the lights of the gatherers of the wounded flitting few and far over the smoke-clouded field, made for a ghastly depression. Sick at heart, in a daze of weariness, hunger and thirst, drunk with sleep, mad for rest, command by command stumbled down the pike or through the fields to where, several miles to the south, stretched the meadows where their trains were parked.
You used to say now and then that you had business that would keep you away, but you never failed to come when you knew positively that I was waiting. I am going to wait to- night, and if I don't make a new man of you I'll confess that I am a failure." "I really can't promise." He was looking back toward the smoke-clouded city, at the gray dome of the State Capitol.
Meanwhile the Hudson's two six-pounders were banging away at a terrific rate. How many of the torpedo boat's shots took effect is not known. The first two of the Hudson's shells fell short, but after these two every one floated straight into the smoke-clouded shore. The Spaniard's aim in the meantime was improving and it was presently seen that two empty barks had been anchored off shore.
"To tell the truth, I came down to hear that promising protege of yours speak on national affairs. I understand you're pushing his bills along." Mr. Bascom, with great deliberation, shut one of his little eyes. "So long," he said, "come and see me when you get time." Austen went slowly down the street and entered the smoke-clouded lobby of the Pelican.
The flames had burst suddenly into the apartment, and through the windows they could see him enter, snatch up the child, and disappear. But he did not come out of the street door as soon as they expected. They could endure waiting no longer. Both dashed into the smoke-clouded passage-way, and stumbled against Clancy Where he had sunk down within a few steps of safety.
"To tell the truth, I came down to hear that promising protege of yours speak on national affairs. I understand you're pushing his bills along." Mr. Bascom, with great deliberation, shut one of his little eyes. "So long," he said, "come and see me when you get time." Austen went slowly down the street and entered the smoke-clouded lobby of the Pelican.
The Solitary, in his smoke-clouded mountain eyrie, surveyed all this, as he had surveyed the varied experiences of life which had passed before it in clear vision through his mind, and still the passion and despair and the self-accusing, self-excusing thoughts were as real to him as they had been at the moment he recalled.
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