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You only can deal with her. Do not delay. Come at once, or we must go to you. Ripaldi, Hôtel Ivoire, Rue Bellechasse." "What does this mean? Who sends it? Who is Ripaldi?" asked Sir Charles, rather brusquely. "He he oh, Charles, I shall have to go. Anything would be better than his coming here." "Ripaldi? Haven't I heard the name? He was one of those in the sleeping-car, I think?
They did not return empty-handed, although at first it seemed as if they had made a fruitless journey. The Hôtel Ivoire was a very second-class place, a lodging-house, or hotel with furnished rooms let out by the week to lodgers with whom the proprietor had no very close acquaintance.
I have noticed several wrinkles round your eyes you should massage with some 'creme ivoire' and tap those lines you really should tap on to them so " and Mrs. Bludlip Courtenay illustrated her instructions delicately on her own pink- and-white dolly face with her finger-tips "I spend quite an hour every day tapping every line away round my eyes but you've really got more than I have "
She followed and marked Quadling down, meaning to denounce him on the first opportunity. Quadling, however, on issuing from the restaurant, had accosted her, and at once offered her a further sum of five thousand francs as the price of silence, and she had gone with him to the Hôtel Ivoire, where she was to receive the sum.
"Yes. The man who calls himself Ripaldi is to be found or, at least, you would have found him an hour or so ago at the Hotel Ivoire, Rue Bellechasse. But time has been lost, I fear." "Nevertheless, we will send there." "The woman Hortense was also with him when last I heard of them." "How do you know?" began the detective, suspiciously. "Psha!" interrupted the Judge; "that will keep.
IVORY, IVOIRE, AVORIO, EBUR. One of the first examples that he had learnt in Latin had run: INDIA MITTIT EBUR; and he recalled the shrewd northern face of the rector who had taught him to construe the Metamorphoses of Ovid in a courtly English, made whimsical by the mention of porkers and potsherds and chines of bacon.
Quadling had paid it, but on one condition, that she would remain at the Hotel Ivoire until the following day. Apparently he had distrusted her, for he had contrived to lock her into her compartment. As she did not choose to be so imprisoned, she summoned assistance, and was at length released by the police."
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