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Updated: June 20, 2025
If a rude, poor puritan, like Cambon or Baudot, refuses to don the official uniform, if two or three Jacobin generals, like Lecourbe and Delmas, grumble at the coronation parade, Napoleon, who knows their mental grasp, regards them as ignoramuses, limited to and rigid inside a fixed idea.
"'Anonymous letters! how dare you! she cried, 'what have anonymous letters to do with me? "'A very great deal, madam, I replied, 'shall I remind you of their contents and the occasions on which you wrote them? I did so. I recited every word in them and told her the hour, day and place namely, when and where each was written, and I summed up by asking what she would pay me not to tell Delmas.
When I saw her she was on her way to a notorious quack doctor and beauty specialist in Californian Street. She suffers from some nasty skin disease, and is in mortal terror lest Delmas should get to know of it, and also of the fact that all her teeth are false, and that two of her toes are badly deformed." "By Jupiter!"
I knew immediately that she was Ella Barlow, the much-pampered and only daughter of J.B. Barlow, the vinegar magnate; that she was in love, or imagined herself in love with Herbert Delmas, the manager of the Columbian Bank a young, good-looking fellow, whom she had been trying to set against his fiancée, Dora Roberts. Dora is only nineteen, very pretty and a trifle giddy nothing more.
But their obvious incapacity for civil affairs enabled them to venture on nothing more than a few coarse jests and clumsy demonstrations. At the Easter celebration at Notre Dame in honour of the ratification of the Concordat, one of them, Delmas by name, ventured on the only protest barbed with telling satire: "Yes, a fine piece of monkery this, indeed.
"'Came as Herbert's deputy and friend, Ella Barlow repeated and by Jove the diamonds did shine she was simply a mass of them, hair, neck, arms and fingers and she had been so well faked up for the occasion that she was almost good-looking; but I thought of all I knew about her and shuddered. "'I will explain myself, I said, 'Mr. Delmas telephoned to you this afternoon, did he not? "She nodded.
"'You won't tell them, she whispered, catching hold of me by the arm, 'you swear you won't. I won't try and remember exactly what I answered but outside the door of the box Delmas joined me. He had been concealed within and had heard everything that passed. "'I can't say how grateful I am to you, he said. 'It's a bit low down, perhaps, but, then, we were dealing with a low-down person.
This morning Ella, anxious to show off a magnificent set of diamonds, given her by her father, telephoned to Delmas to take her to the Baldwyn Theatre, where she has engaged a box for this evening fondly hoping that the diamonds will bring him up to the scratch, and that he will propose to her.
There is also the Delmas hot air burner, in which the batswing flame is completely inclosed in a glass, mounted with a sheet-iron casing, heated by the products of combustion, through which the air passes on its passage downward to feed the flame; and it thus increases the temperature, improves the illuminating power, and produces a beautiful steady light.
What did you get out of Delmas?" "Nothing!" Kelson said looking rather shamefaced, "But the matter hasn't ended yet. I'm going to the theatre after I've had something to eat. I'll tell you what happens, to-morrow." It was late ere Kelson came down to breakfast the following day, and Hamar and Curtis were comfortably seated in armchairs reading the Examiner, when he joined them. "Well!"
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