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Updated: June 19, 2025
But without pausing to glance behind, our guide hurried us forward along a number of winding back streets of the city, hot, dusty and close-smelling after the broiling day, until he stopped before the door of a fine house, the walls of which were of polished white marble, that reflected the last rays of the sun like burnished gold.
On winter afternoons you saw him sometimes at the movies, whiling away one of his many idle hours in the dim, close-smelling atmosphere of the place. Tokyo and Petrograd and Gallipoli came to him. He saw beautiful tiger women twining fair, false arms about the stalwart but yielding forms of young men with cleft chins. He was only mildly interested.
To her, also, home meant a bed-sitting room "over there," as she indicated with a wave of the little fawn glove embracing the north-west district generally; and he did not press her for any more precise address. It was easy enough for him to picture it: the mean, close-smelling street somewhere in the neighbourhood of Lisson Grove, or farther on towards the Harrow Road.
Into that unpretentious and rather close-smelling room for it was bed-chamber as well as dining-room and study stepped La Boulaye unhesitatingly, with the air of a man who is intimate with his surroundings and assured of his welcome in them.
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