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Are you aware that he is stopping at the Hotel Gigantique, of all places, and doing himself and your brother Frank like a couple of millionaires? I cannot help considering this a very remarkable symptom. "I myself am in bed to-day, so pray forgive the handwriting. With kind regards to you all, believe me, yours sincerely,
Lucas interrupted him brusquely. "I'm off. Look after things here. What the devil " He strode down the lane, hailed a cab, and drove off to an accompaniment of the most anxious speculations. "This way, sir," said the attendant at the Hotel Gigantique. Lucas followed him, still racking his brains for some explanation not too disastrous to his hopes.
From the station he drove to the large political club where he always put up, ate a dinner that exactly accorded with his station in life, and took a horse bus to the Hotel Gigantique.
Walkingshaw and his son were residing at the Hotel Gigantique, that stately new pile in Piccadilly, so styled, it is understood, from the bills presented when you leave. On the morning after his evening spent with Charlie Munro, they met as usual at breakfast. Fortunately, the state of Mr. Walkingshaw's health did not in the least seem to justify the forebodings of his friend.
Youth and love and pluck are the main things. Hang it, what if you do get into debt occasionally? You've got a pretty oofy father-in-law. Of course, my dear chap, I don't encourage extravagance; far from it" he glanced complacently at the chaste upholstery of the Hotel Gigantique.
The Ecclesiastiques have their Cathedral Churches; which, in what Towne soever they be erected, by vertue of Holy Water, and certain Charmes called Exorcismes, have the power to make those Townes, cities, that is to say, Seats of Empire. The Fairies also have their enchanted Castles, and certain Gigantique Ghosts, that domineer over the Regions round about them.
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