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Updated: June 20, 2025
"I was but as it is a matter of no moment, I have changed my mind. You have been left so much alone lately. Nay I'll not disguise the truth; I had another reason." "May I know it?" "Of course you may. It is about our fellow-lodgers. Doctor Brown I met him on the road this morning told me that her father cannot live more than a few days perhaps a few hours. And she does not know it."
I would not have one iota taken from the justice the deadly and dooming weight of my dying curse." Here violent spasms broke on the speech of the sufferer; and when, by medicine and his daughter's attentions, he had recovered, he said, in a lower and calmer key: "Is all quiet below, Constance? Are all in bed? The landlady the servants our fellow-lodgers?" "All, my father."
He lived in a small inn for students near to the School of Medicine, and his vehement discussions at night with his fellow-lodgers over the smoke of their pipes taught him as much as the books of that hated science.
If he was not drunk, he always readily acceded to the task proposed to him, nodded significantly, frowned, set down his remarks in learned phraseology, held the card neatly printed on red paper in his dirty, trembling hands, and glanced round at his fellow-lodgers with pride and contempt, as though now triumphing in his education over those who had so often humiliated him.
Fett broke off his harangue to rise and salute the Princess, who, entering with our host at her heels, turned to Marc'antonio and bade him, as purse-bearer, count out the money for a week's lodging. Messer' Fazio bit each coin carefully as it was tendered, and had scarcely pocketed the last before a noise at the front-door followed by peals of laughter announced the arrival of our fellow-lodgers.
"I wasn't aware you had such fashionable friends, or I couldn't have expected to retain you." "All my friends are not as fashionable," said Dick, wondering what the young lady would say if she could see his late fellow-lodgers at Mrs. Mooney's, on Mott Street. "If I can't hope to keep you this evening, you must promise to stay awhile to-morrow evening.
One of his fellow-lodgers, he soon found, was Rose Massey, an actress engaged for the performance of small parts at the Queen's Theatre. The first time he spoke to her was on the doorstep. She had forgotten her latch-key, and he said, 'Will you allow me to let you in? She stepped aside, but did not answer him.
Both the Duchess and the Countess were his kinswomen. How could such a menage last? He lost his all. What became of our fellow-lodgers I never learned, but the venture coming to naught, the last I heard of the beautiful high-bred lady manager, she was serving as a stewardess on an ocean liner.
If he was not drunk, he always readily acceded to the task proposed to him, nodded significantly, frowned, set down his remarks in learned phraseology, held the card neatly printed on red paper in his dirty, trembling hands, and glanced round at his fellow-lodgers with pride and contempt, as though now triumphing in his education over those who had so often humiliated him.
There was Madame Laurent, there was the German count, whom the professor was teaching French; there was the French viscount, whom he was teaching German; there were all his fellow-lodgers the ladies whom he had boasted of the men he had boasted to Don Juan, in the infernal regions, could not have met with a more unwelcome set of old acquaintance than Monsieur Margot had the happiness of opening his bewildered eyes upon in the porter's lodge.
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