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"Of course, with my wretchedly short sight, I may have been mistaken," Wace continued, pointedly ignoring her interruption, "but I am almost convinced I recognized Colonel Carteret and Miss Verity Damaris through the open door, on the other side of the salle d'attente, in the crowd on the platform about to take their places in the train from Cannes, which had just come in."
Yes, insufficiently dying for, in heaven's name, let him make up his mind and that speedily get well and make himself useful, or veritably and finally depart before, for the preservation of her good looks, it was too late. "I met Sir Charles Verity at the station," Wace went on. "He was coming out of the first class salle d'attente.
But he had to give up by and by his daily canter in Rotten Row, and more reluctantly still his continental travel. Foreign railways were closed to him by the Salle d'Attente; he could not stand incarceration in the waiting-rooms. The last time he crossed the Channel was at the close of the Franco-Prussian war, on a visit to his old friend M. Thiers, then President.
Between this Salle d'Attente and the den in which he slept, ate, smoked, and received his friends, lay the studio once a stately salon, now a wilderness of litter and dilapidation. On one side you beheld three windows closely boarded up, with strips of newspaper pasted over the cracks to exclude every gleam of day.
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