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The door opened cautiously. A head of touseled black hair crept out. "Johnnie, dear! You!... you are a surprise!" Did I really detect an echo of disappointment in her deep, contralto voice? Frightened in my heart like a trapped animal, I went in. Down a long, dusk, musty-smelling corridor and into a back-apartment on the first floor; she led me into a room which was bed-and-sitting room combined.
Eight o'clock chimed nine ten and they were all, Edouard especially, working themselves into a complete panic of undefinable apprehension, when, to their great relief, M. de Véron's carriage drew up before the door. The first person to alight was M. Bourdon, a notary of eminence; next M. de Véron, who handed out Madame Carson; and all three walked through the shop into the back-apartment.
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