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"Only," said Montmorency, trembling, "only to be inconspicuous." Rupert had his ruthless smile. "Can you tell me any place on earth in which a green house would be inconspicuous?" The house-agent was fidgeting nervously in his pocket. Slowly drawing out a couple of lizards and leaving them to run on the counter, he said: "No; I can't." "You can't suggest an explanation?"
He was a very ordinary, plain-countenanced, sandy-haired, quite commercial-looking man, this, who might have been anything from a Stock Exchange clerk to a suburban house-agent. But there was a sudden alertness in his eye as he turned it on the visitors, which showed them that he was well equipped in mental acuteness, and probably as alert as his features were commonplace.
"He seemed to like the way I put it to him, and instead of being scared he went to an expert in drains, who advised him that there was only quite a small thing wrong. He's doing up some of the rooms and moving in in a fortnight." "This sounds as though there might be an opening for an honest house-agent," Burton suggested. Mr. Waddington looked dubious. "It's never been tried.
She was only there to show visitors the house." Harry turned away in listless perplexity; it was quite evident this person could tell him nothing. Doubtless their change of plans had been communicated to him by post, but he had not waited to send for letters. There was nothing for it but to obtain from the woman the address of the house-agent, get Mr.
"If you will excuse me," he said, clenching his hands behind his back, "I think I should feel myself justified in " "Oh! Come along in," exploded the lieutenant. He made the same gesture of savage surrender. And he slammed into the office, the rest of us at his heels. P. Montmorency, House-Agent, was a solitary old gentleman sitting behind a bare brown counter.
Sooner or later, I shall want a town house, and I don't see why that Portsmouth Square place shouldn't suit me very well." Venner was true to his intention, and later in the afternoon was once more closeted with the house-agent. "Do you really want to let the place?" he asked. "Well, upon my word, sir, I'm not quite sure," the agent replied.
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