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Updated: June 22, 2025
He has bought a gondola, and his secretary is on the lookout for gondoliers, an Italian valet, and a commissionnaire." "You will offer yourself as his commissionnaire, then," said Strozzi, with a sinister scowl. "And be sure you get the place do you hear?" Antonio bowed, and the marquis continued: "In fifteen minutes return to me, and meanwhile begone!"
At Messina, of course, our steamer was visited by a commissionnaire, who asked me in good English whether I wanted a hotel. I told him that I had already decided upon a hotel, and therefore did not need his services.
Fagged as I was, I felt that a walk through the fresh air would do me good; so I dismissed the cab, and reached my lodgings just as the sleepy concierge had turned out to sweep the hall, and open the establishment for the day. When I came down again two hours later, after a nap and a bath, I found a commissionnaire waiting for me. "V'la! here is M'sieur Arbuthnot."
Conrad opened the door and signed to some one without, when the commissionnaire advanced and bowed. "Why are you masked?" asked the prince, who remembered the warning which Laura had sent him the day previous. "Excellenza, every Venetian of good character has a right to wear a mask during the carnival." "And every criminal can take advantage of the right," replied Eugene.
At noon I always picked the restaurant I wanted, so long as I had to pay for the lunch of the commissionnaire who was with me anyway. Can you imagine any man at home letting a woman pay for his meals the way those shrimpy Frenchmen do? "Well, the restaurants were always jammed full of Americans.
A glance showed him that chance had put in his way a State document of immense value, and in an instant he had thrust it into his pocket and was gone. A few minutes elapsed, as you remember, before the sleepy commissionnaire drew your attention to the bell, and those were just enough to give the thief time to make his escape.
"'Oh, not very many minutes. "'Within the last five? "'Well, it could not be more than five. "'You're only wasting your time, sir, and every minute now is of importance, cried the commissionnaire; 'take my word for it that my old woman has nothing to do with it, and come down to the other end of the street. Well, if you won't, I will. And with that he rushed off in the other direction.
But early on the following morning a commissionnaire brought me a note from Nina. 'My father is very much worse. Can you come at once? He was delirious. Poor Nina, white, with frightened eyes, moved about like one distracted. We sent off for Dr. Rénoult, we had in a Sister of Charity. Everything that could be done was done. Till the very end, none of us for a moment doubted that he would recover.
Three steamers were simmering into action on the London-hotel side of the harbour, in one of which the Royal George two britzkas and a barouche were lashed ready for sea, while the custom-house porters were trundling barrows full of luggage under the personal superintendence of a little shock-headed French commissionnaire of Mr.
"I knew it was a dagger-thrust," replied Eugene. "Well, this scar shall be your best recommendation to me, for I, too, am a soldier." "Excellenza, I thank you, but I have other and weighty recommendations from my employers. Moreover, here is my license as commissionnaire from the Signiory."
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