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Updated: June 9, 2025
He remained there till four, and made it matter of conscience neither to do any ex-official writing, nor to receive ex-official visits during these hours. He gave his undivided attention to the duties of his office, but has often said that these made him a better historian than he could have been without them.
The merchant listened quietly without interruption until I had finished; then he said, 'I suppose it will be rather useless to inform the police of Paris? 'Indeed, Mr. White, it is the police of Paris I fear more than the anarchists. They would resent information coming to them from the outside, especially from an ex-official, the inference being that they were not up to their own duties.
There la Peyrade laid his finger on a sore wound which Thuillier hid from every eye so carefully that even his sister did not know of it; but the young man, interested in studying these bourgeois, had divined the secret envy that gnawed at the heart of the ex-official.
The ex-official could hear little, but he had cultivated the habit of talking constantly and well. There were some voices, however, which he could hear more distinctly than others, and Lord Windlehurst's was one of them clear, well-modulated, and penetrating. Sipping brandy and water, Lord Windlehurst gave his latest quip.
But when the Oxford man or the ex-official of one of the most venerable and decorous of societies protested, the believer, or, if you will, the enthusiast, put the protest by. And so the dream gathered substance and stayed with him, till at last he found himself at his own door. As he closed it behind him, Catherine came out into the pretty old hall from the dining-room.
The shabby, neglected house the sacks of coffee and flowers run riot the deaf, courteous ex-official, perhaps proud of his descent from some great Makassar chief the kindly lady, embodiment of perfect health, who long ago had left her home in Europe for life in a distant land with the husband of her choice and last but not least of all these impressions of that day their child reared in a glorious country unspoilt by contact with civilization simple, unaffected, a picture from the past.
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