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"I jest intend makin' yeh comfortable," he announced, masterfully. It was something of an ordeal to go down to dinner half an hour later, but they met it bravely, walking stiffly into the crowded dining-room, and looking to neither the right nor the left as they followed the headwaiter to their places.
The waiter shrugged his shoulders, as if indicating an unwillingness to inflict his grievances on one of the tipping classes. "Come on!" persisted Archie encouragingly. "All pals here. Barge alone, old thing, and let's have it." Salvatore, thus admonished, proceeded in a hurried undertone with one eye on the headwaiter to lay bare his soul.
As for Monsieur Chebe, who had recovered all his importance, it was impossible to induce him to go. Some one must be there to do the honors, deuce take it! And I assure you that the little man assumed the responsibility! He was flushed, lively, frolicsome, noisy, almost seditious. On the floor below he could be heard talking politics with Vefour's headwaiter, and making most audacious statements.
To his left was a large family circle Russians, according to information derived from the headwaiter and among them, a girl, apparently about eighteen, sitting on the edge of the party and absorbed in a novel of which she was eagerly turning the pages.
Celeste found out about him from the headwaiter," she said, with the security of one who treats of recognized values. Marvell, sitting upright, reached lazily across the grass for his hat. "Then there's all the more reason for rushing back to defend our share."
A pussy-footed male attendant, in a livery that made him look like a cross between a headwaiter and an undertaker's assistant, escorted me through an anteroom into a reception-room, where a considerable number of well-dressed men and women were sitting about in strained attitudes, pretending to read magazines while they waited their turns, but in reality furtively watching one another.
A chance for another fare and a generous tip were all that was necessary to induce him to drive me to the Trocadero, a fashionable restaurant and cabaret, where he had taken Cranston a short time before. It was crowded when I entered, and, avoiding the headwaiter, I stood by the door a few minutes and looked over the brilliant and gay throng.
She assumed, however, a slight and charming trace of embarrassment and perplexity, which to Graydon was perfectly irresistible, and he mentally resolved that she should not much longer want a devoted escort. Madge saw his glance of sympathy and strong admiration, his smile and low bow as she passed, ushered forward by the obsequious headwaiter, and her heart sank.
She was so happy over the situation that she helped Cheever out of the appalling problem before him. He did not know how to go forward or how to retreat. He could think of nothing to say to the headwaiter who offered him his choice of tables. Zada caught his elbow and murmured in her very best voice just loud enough for the headwaiter's benefit: "Mr. Cheever, I'm so sorry but I'm feeling dizzy.
During the week after we had it every day. Then no more. The headwaiter, with many apologies, explained that he had found those few bottles in a forgotten bin, where they had lain for years, and he begged a thousand pardons of monsieur, but we had drunk them all rien du plus no more. I might add that precisely the same thing happened to me at the Hotel Continental.
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