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Updated: May 26, 2025
Sometimes, when he had nothing to do in the afternoon, he would count them, and say to himself: "Just let me see how many I shall meet between the Madeleine and the Rue Druot." Then he would walk slowly, looking at every coat with a practiced eye for the little bit of red ribbon, and when he had got to the end of his walk he always said the numbers out aloud. "Eight officers and seventeen knights.
Well, yes; that might be it, if Hortense Rieppe were younger in years, and younger, especially, in soul; but her museum was too richly furnished with specimens of the chase, she had collected too many bits and bibelots from life's Hotel Druot and the great bazaar of female competition, to pay so great a price as marriage for merely John; particularly when a lady, even in Newport, can have but one husband at a time in her collection.
But he saw me, and came towards me with outstretched arms, and we embraced in the middle of the boulevard. After we had gone up and down once or twice from the Rue Druot to the Vaudeville Theater, just as we were taking leave of each other for he already seemed quite done up with walking I said to him: "You don't look at all well. Are you ill?" "I do feel rather out of sorts," was all he said.
"He is teaching Botticelli in his three manners," said Lady Ascott, "and Cyril is thinking of going over to Rome." "Asher, let us get away from this culture," Harding whispered. "Yes, let's get away from it; I want to show you a table, the one on which Evelyn used to write her letters. We bought it together at the Salle Druot."
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