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Updated: June 6, 2025
Mary wrote on a slip of paper the words, "The affianced wife of the real Sidney Ormond would like to see you for a few moments," and this brief note was taken in to the lecturer. The door-keeper's faith in the constancy of public men was rudely shaken a few minutes later, when the messenger returned with orders that the lady was to be admitted at once.
My charmer found the opportunity to tell me that I had done wisely in yielding to the ill-timed demand of that harpy, and that as soon as M. de Chauvelin, whom they were expecting, had gone away again, I could ask her husband to spend a few days with me, and that she would doubtless come too. "Your door-keeper's wife," she added, "was my nurse.
We were received with a show of great friendship, and she went out with us into the garden, taking M. 's arm, while his wife leant amorously on mine. When we had made a few turns of the garden, Madame begged me to take her to her nurse. As her husband was close by, I said, "Who is your nurse?" "Your door-keeper's wife," said her husband, "we will wait for you in this lady's apartment."
We were received with a show of great friendship, and she went out with us into the garden, taking M. 's arm, while his wife leant amorously on mine. When we had made a few turns of the garden, Madame begged me to take her to her nurse. As her husband was close by, I said, "Who is your nurse?" "Your door-keeper's wife," said her husband, "we will wait for you in this lady's apartment."
I was very indifferent and careless upon this subject; but not a little uneasy at finding that my dress, so different from that of the company to which I belonged, attracted general notice and observation. In a short time, however, we arrived at one of the door-keeper's bars. Mr. Branghton demanded for what part of the house they took money?
The doorkeeper said that if I was not pleased with his cooking I had only to say so, and in that case I should have nothing to pay. I sent for my carriage, and felt that I had established myself in my new abode. On the ground floor I saw three charming girls and the door-keeper's wife, who all bowed profoundly.
"Allow me to have one of the door-keeper's daughters to sleep with me." "If it had come into my head, I would have proposed it to you. Is she in your room now?" "No." "Go and call her, then." "Let us leave that till to-morrow, as if I went at this time of night it might make people talk." "I see you have a store of discretion, and you may be sure I will not deprive you of any of it."
The doorkeeper said that if I was not pleased with his cooking I had only to say so, and in that case I should have nothing to pay. I sent for my carriage, and felt that I had established myself in my new abode. On the ground floor I saw three charming girls and the door-keeper's wife, who all bowed profoundly.
The buildings were half falling, the gaping vestibules looked like cellar holes, strips of paper streaked the cracked and filthy window-panes, and vile rags hung about like flags of death. Inside a shanty which served as the door-keeper's abode Pierre only saw an infirm man rolled up in a tattered strip of what had once been a horse-cloth.
Klea's head was uncovered, and, fearing the heat of noon, she was about to return into the door-keeper's house, when she saw a young white-robed scribe, employed in the special service of Asclepiodorus, who came across the court beckoning eagerly to her.
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