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The laughter-loving lieutenant hated embarrassment as he did fast-days, and I had given him a bad hour. He was back before I thought it possible. "She will see you at once in the commandant's waiting-room." He looked at me oddly. "Your wife is a queenly woman, monsieur." The lights shone uncertainly in the commandant's waiting-room. It was the room where I had met the English captive.
Soon after, it began to thunder, and all through that terrible storm I was alone in the waiting-room. So great was my relief when the wind and lightning ceased, that I went to sleep, and dreamed of a happy time when I lived in Italy, and of talking with one very dear to me. Just then I awoke with a start, and heard a voice talking outside, which seemed very familiar.
Demented signifies, that if Monied Interest chooses to be left behind, HE don't. 'Refreshments in the Waiting-Room, ladies and gentlemen. No hurry, ladies and gentlemen, for Paris. No hurry whatever!
They've skipped." Another Stage of the Journey The ferry-house where the policeman had found Glory and her "Angel" was also the terminus of a great railway. Beyond the waiting-room were iron gates, always swinging to and fro, for the passage of countless travelers; and from the gates stretched rows of shining tracks.
The man came quickly, in answer to that impatient summons. "My brother is in a fit," Joseph cried; "help me to lift him out of the carriage, and then send some one for a doctor." The unconscious form was lifted out in the arms of the two strong men. They carried it into the waiting-room, and laid it on a sofa. The bell rang, and the Southampton train rushed onward without the two travellers.
Moreover, in time of rain the paved floor became as muddy as that of a general waiting-room at a railway station. The high altar was a temporary structure of painted wood. Innumerable rows of benches filled the central rotunda, benches free to the public, on which people could come and rest at all hours, for night and day alike the Rosary remained open to the swarming pilgrims.
I got up somehow, and a crowd of people jostled me, and I saw my innocent darling carried among them. I felt hands on me, trying to pull me back; but I broke away, and got into the waiting-room along with the rest.
"I am her brother," Aaron announced. "It is most important." The boy slipped from a worn stool and disappeared. Presently the door of the little waiting-room was suddenly opened, and a girl entered. "Aaron!" she exclaimed. "Has anything happened?" Once more he raised his head, once more the light that flickered in his face transformed him into some semblance of a virile man. "Maraton is here!
An English dean in full clericals, and some English ladies talking in the waiting-room, added an agreeable confusion to our doubt of where and what we were, and we came away from the hotel as well content as if we had lunched in Plymouth or Bath.
And when he went out of the dock into the waiting-room He had a signet ring with prussic acid in it ..." "I remember now," he said. A silence fell between them. Benham stood quite motionless on the hearthrug and stared very hard at the little volume of Henley's poetry that lay upon the table. He cleared his throat presently. "You can't go and see them then," he said.
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