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Updated: May 9, 2025
'Garcon, one other liqueur brandy. The book, monsieur, is a 'Istory of the Cat in Ancient Egypt. The clock struck five briskly, as if time were money. Ruth Warden got up from her desk and, having put on her hat, emerged into the outer office where M. Gandinot received visitors.
It possessed that indefinable quality which characterizes the Billiken, due, perhaps, to the unquenchable optimism which shone through the irregular features; for M. Gandinot, despite his calling, believed in his fellow-man. 'You are going, mademoiselle?
To her the patrons of the establishment were mere disembodied voices wheedling voices, pathetic voices, voices that protested, voices that hectored, voices that whined, moaned, broke, appealed to the saints, and in various other ways endeavoured to instil into M. Gandinot more spacious and princely views on the subject advancing money on property pledged.
As Ruth was wearing her hat and making for the door, and as she always left at this hour, a purist might have considered the question superfluous; but M. Gandinot was a man who seized every opportunity of practising his English. 'You will not wait for the good papa who calls so regularly for you? 'I think I won't today, M. Gandinot. I want to get out into the air. I have rather a headache.
She was sitting behind her screen this morning, scribbling idly on the blotting-pad, for there had been a lull in the business, when the door opened, and the polite, 'Bonjour, monsieur, of M. Gandinot announced the arrival of another unfortunate. And then, shaking her like an electric shock, came a voice that she knew the pleasant voice of Mr Vince.
Terms, apparently had been agreed upon and the interview concluded, for in his hand was a silver cigarette-case. 'Dreaming, mademoiselle? I could not make you hear. The more I call to you, the more you did not answer. It is necessary to enter this loan. He recited the details and Ruth entered them in her ledger. This done, M. Gandinot, doffing his official self, sighed.
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