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'Not anything, my dear Mrs. Linnet, thank you. You forget what a Rechabite I am. By the by, when I went this morning to see a poor girl in Butcher's Lane, whom I had heard of as being in a consumption, I found Mrs. Dempster there. I had often met her in the street, but did not know it was Mrs. Dempster. It seems she goes among the poor a good deal. She is really an interesting-looking woman.
While other occupants of the cafe, particularly the women, stole looks at the handsome, flawlessly dressed, interesting-looking Barney, Barney had yet another of those concoctions which the discreet waiter served in a tea-cup. He'd done a great little job, you bet! Not another man in New York could have done better. He was sure going to put Maggie across!
"Well, did I ever?" said a pale and interesting-looking girl. "That is just as strange as a romance I have been reading!" "Well, they say truth is stranger than fiction. A deceitful thing to try to pass for white when she is colored! If she comes back to this school I shan't stay!" said the coarse rough girl, twirling her gold pencil. "I ain't a going to sit alongside of niggers." "How you talk!
It was a subtle change; but, somehow, it made her blush again. And turn her eyes away again more quickly than before. But there was a singing in her brain. The dark, interesting-looking Stranger LIKED her to look at him LIKED her to blush and look away! She felt oddly light-headed like someone unknown to herself. She wanted to laugh and chatter about she knew not what. She wanted to
Whereupon the carriage drove off, Annunziata standing and watching, always round-eyed, till it was out of sight. "What an interesting-looking child!" said Lady Blanchemain. "Yes," said John. "I should have liked to introduce her to you." "Who is she?" asked the lady. "She's the private detective I told you of. She's my affinity.
"Grex," he repeated, knocking the ash from his cigarette. "Rather an uncommon name, isn't it? Why do you ask?" "Oh, I've seen an elderly man and a young lady about once or twice," Lane explained. "Very interesting-looking people. Some one told me that their name was Grex." "There is a person living under that name, I think," Hunterleys said, "who has taken the Villa Mimosa for the season."
"I imagine she might have something to write worth reading," said his mother. "I've always thought she was an interesting-looking girl." "Yes, she is. She dances well, too." "Of course," continued Mrs. Lindley, thoughtfully, "she seldom says anything interesting, but that may be because she so seldom has a chance to say anything at all." Richard refused to perceive this allusion.
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