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A clean-shaven gentleman was talking to her when I went in, and for a little while I didn't recognise him; but presently he turned round, and something in his manner and tone of voice caused me to look up sharp enough. "Why," says I, "his lordship!" They both laughed at this, and Miss Dartel held up her finger. "Whatever are you saying, Britten?" cried she. "That's Mr.
While they were there, Miss Dartel puts her pretty fingers upon them, and begins to speak quite confidentially "Britten," says she, "there's fifteen pounds. I daresay it would be fifty if you had a very bad memory, Britten, and couldn't recognise the gentleman you picked up last night. Now, do you think you have such a bad memory as all that?"
I drove her for five months, and never had a word with her. Then a man, who said he was a bailiff, came and took her car away, and there was no money for me on the Saturday. So I suppose she married into the peerage. My story isn't about Fauny Dartel, though it's got to do with her. It's about a man who didn't know who he was at least, he said so and couldn't tell you why he did it.
I have driven plenty of pretty girls in my life; but I don't know that the prettiest wasn't Fauny Dartel, of the Apollo.
You will readily imagine that I was glad of this interview, and had been looking forward to it anxiously from the time I drove the car into the stable until the moment it came off. Miss Dartel had a flat in Bayswater just then; but she didn't send for me there, and it was at the theatre I saw her, in her own dressing-room between the acts of a rehearsal.
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