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She hoped that Dyckman would take her out to the theater or a dance, and she put on her best bib and tucker, the bib being conspicuously missing. She was taking a last look at the arrangement of her little living-room when the telephone-bell rang and the maid came to say: "'Scuse me, Miss Adair, but hall-boy says your father and mother is down-stairs." Kedzie almost fainted.
Gilfoyle asked, with sudden alarm. "Oh, nossa. Mainly Mr. Dyckman. But that's her business." "What Dyckman is that, the rich Jim Dyckman?" "Well, I ain't s'posed to give out info'mation." "Are you supposed to take in money?" Gilfoyle juggled with a half-dollar. The hall-boy juggled his eyes in unison, and laughed yearningly: "I reckon I might let you up by mistake.
Adna Thropp and his wife were impressed by the ornate lobby of the apartment-house, by the livery of the hall-boy and the elevator-boy, by the apron and cap of the maid who let them in, and by the hall furniture. But when they saw their little Kedzie standing before them in her evening gown her party dress as Mrs. Thropp would say they were overwhelmed.
The hall-boy listened with an air of polite concern, and there were curious over-shoulder glances from the passers-by. Suddenly St. George's face lighted and he went swiftly through his pockets and produced a scrap of paper the fragment that had lain that morning on the floor of the prince's deserted apartment, and that bore the arms of the King of Yaque.
"We are invited to spend the week-end with Camellia," announced my hostess at the breakfast-table one morning, glancing up from a note which the hall-boy had just brought to the door. The Skeptic jumped in his chair. "Those same old sensations come over me," he announced, digging away vengefully at his grapefruit. "What have I to wear?
The Helena asked the reader if she had seen the "cabinet finish, hard-wood floors, and frescoed ceilings" of its fifty-dollar flats; the Asteroid affirmed that such apartments, with "six light rooms and bath, porcelain wash-tubs, electric bells, and hall-boy," as it offered for seventy-five dollars were unapproached by competition. There was a sameness in the jargon which tended to confusion. Mrs.
This brought her the second time within the clasp of a muscular arm, and then she gasped an inquiry for her friends, and he sent the staring hall-boy to ask if they were in, and stepped into his own room and brought forth a glass of wine, which he calmly ordered her to sip, and then, seeing her heart was fluttering like a terrified bird's, he spoke gently and soothingly, and little by little she had regained some composure when the boy came down from the fourth floor to say the ladies were out.
Blake, come right along with me, or I'll make a scene and scandal right here in front of the club." The hall-boy, with the exaggerated desire to avoid scandal which marks the perfect club servant, fell away. As for Dr. Blake, this seemed the line of least resistance. Life and death, misery and happiness all looked equally dim and rosy. Mme. Le Grange said nothing until they were three doors away.
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