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"He seemed to be very occupied about something. No, I don't think I ever saw him speak to a soul here, except a word to the waiters and the boys. Once, though," he recollected, "he was called up by a Mrs. Beekman Rogers." "Mrs. Beekman Rogers," repeated Kennedy, jotting the name down and looking it up in the telephone-book.
But the Hudson, with its beauty and the delight of its hills rising in such a profusion of loveliness back of it, seemed to draw us irresistibly. "Anything within an hour of New York," said Aubrey. The telephone-book should answer. I resolved to read until I got a "hunch." That is not good English, but with me it is good sense, which is better.
He tossed a bank-note to Regan, who snatched it eagerly on the fly. Lorelei forestalled further words. "Please I must telephone. I go on in a minute." "Fairy Princess, last night I was a goldfish; to-night I am an enchanted lover " "Wait; I'm in a hurry." She thumbed the telephone-book swiftly in search of her number, but young Wharton was not to be silenced.
When Ugo came home and dismounted at the door, Pica at once told him of the Princess's visit, repeating her message without a mistake, and adding that he had copied her name and address in the telephone-book. The Captain nodded gravely and looked at the card before he went upstairs, but said nothing to his man.
She rapidly turned over the foul and torn pages of the telephone-book with her thumb. She spoke into the instrument very clearly, curtly, and authoritatively. George could translate in his mind what she said his great resolve to learn French had carried him so far. "On the part of Monsieur Cannon, one of your clients, Monsieur Cannon of London. Has there arrived a telegram for him?" She waited.
We asked those of our friends who were commuters to exploit the glories of their own particular towns, but to our minds there was always some insuperable objection. So one day I took down the telephone-book and looked over the names of the towns. Jersey was tabooed on account of its mosquitoes, and both Aubrey and I cared nothing for the seashore.
The name was the first one that my eye lit upon in the telephone-book. If you object to bearing it for the evening, it is easy to see how a name could be misunderstood over the 'phone. But perhaps you would better give me a few pointers, for I've never tried acting a part, and can't be sure how well I shall do it." The girl had been silent from astonishment while the man talked.
It was a merciless thing to do to make this just judge the slayer of the friend of his youth; but at the end Blount reached for the telephone-book and began to search for the chief justice's residence number. Before he could find it the phone bell rang. "Well?" he answered shortly, putting the receiver to his ear.
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