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She can go with Eggis, he told himself, and simultaneously spoke out the thought. "I saw you on the bridge the other day." But if he had imagined this would rouse her, he was wrong. "Yes?" she said indifferently, and with that laming want of curiosity which prevents a subject from being followed up. They sat in silence for some seconds. With her fingers, she pulled at the fringe of the tablecloth.
She had only remembered it a day or two ago; the dues would no doubt be considerable. If it were not too much trouble ... she would be so grateful; she would rather ask him than Mr. Eggis. "I should be delighted," said Maurice. He went the next morning, at nine o'clock, spent a trying hour with uncivil officials, and, in the afternoon, called to report to Louise.
In a kind of bravado, she made him take her round a second time; and after the third, which was a solitary progress, they remained standing with their backs to the mirror. Eggis at once came up, with Herries in his train, and, on learning that she had no programme, the latter ran off to fetch one. Before he returned, a third man had joined them, and soon she was the centre of a little circle.
Her companion was an Englishman called Eggis, of whom it was rumoured that he had found it advisable abruptly to leave his native land: here, he made a precarious living by journalism, and by doing odd jobs for the consulate.
If anyone had a right to be at her side it was he, unless, indeed, all that he had undergone on her behalf during the past months counted for nothing. Of course this Eggis was an unscrupulous fellow; but it was just such men as this he might note that for future use who won where others lost.
I want to dance to forget myself with light and music. It's the most natural thing in the world. Anyone but you would think so." "It is not life you mean; it's excitement." "What it means is that you don't want to take me. Yes, that's what it is. But I can get some one else. I will send for Eggis; he will have no objection." "Why drag in that cad's name?
Of course he knew, though he did not tell her so knew almost the exact hour at which the blinds had been drawn up, the windows opened, and a flower-pot, in a gaudy pink paper, put out on the sill. Not many days after this, he came upon Louise herself. She was standing talking, at a street-corner, to the shabby little Englishman, Eggis, with whom she had walked the FOYER of the theatre.
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