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"That's what I think of him," he said in a confidential whisper, shaking his head at me. "He's gone, sir, gone, in my estimation. Now what would you take to be a proof of madness, Mr. West?" "Why, offering a blank cheque to a Wigtown house-agent," said I. "Ah, you're aye at your jokes.
Hearing this about her father, and having already had the privilege of meeting her brother and studying him at first hand, his heart bled for Maud. It seemed to him that existence at the castle in such society must be little short of torture. "I must do something," he muttered. "I must do something quick." "Beg pardon," said the house-agent. "Nothing," said George. "Well, I'll take that cottage.
All arrangements with the house-agent were made by letter, and, as far as I can make out, none of the local tradespeople supply him, so he must get his things from a distance even his bread, which really is rather odd. Now say I am an inquisitive, gossiping country bumpkin." "I was going to," I answered, "but it is no use now."
I paid our rent a few days ago three months in advance." "I will go to the house-agent in the Piazza di Spagna to-morrow. It should not be difficult to get a tenant, and at the end of the time the furniture could be warehoused, or you could sell it." Ser Giulia hesitated. "What would you do then, figliuola mia?" "Oh, I can take care of myself," the girl said easily.
Then she hired a cab, and went to a house-agent whose name she remembered. That seemed the quickest way of getting what she wanted a small furnished house, cheerful and yet retired, which she could take at any rate for a month, and for longer if she needed it. The agent by good chance had the very thing she asked for.
"That appears to be a very important point. It must be rather green. May I ask you, Mr Montmorency, before I rejoin my companion outside, whether, in your business, it is usual to ask for houses by their colour? Do clients write to a house-agent asking for a pink house or a blue house? Or, to take another instance, for a green house?"
Called. Pettigrew gone abroad. House in Manchester Square to let. Staines went to the house-agent with his tale. Agent was impenetrable at first; but, at last, won by the doctor's manner and his unhappiness, referred him to Pettigrew's solicitor; the solicitor was a respectable man, and said he would forward the claim to Pettigrew in Paris.
My office is just close by. You may know my name Lewis Mardon." Peel-Swynnerton hesitated. The hesitation convicted him of not 'knowing his Paris' well. "House-agent," said Lewis Mardon, quickly. "Oh yes," said Peel-Swynnerton, vaguely recalling a vision of the name among the advertisements on newspaper kiosks. "I expect," Mr. Mardon went on, "my name is as well-known as anybody's in Paris."
She arrived there in pretty good spirits; she had written to a house-agent and had got the names of two or three 'to let' houses, which she at once tramped off from the station to look at, for she was very anxious not to spend a penny more than she could help. But, oh dear, how her spirits went down!
Lieutenant Drummond Keith led us through very extraordinary and unpromising neighbourhoods in the search for his remarkable house-agent. Neither of the brothers Grant failed to notice this fact.
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