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The Jourdains, puzzled at my not returning, unable to keep silence, suspecting, perhaps, some plot against themselves, had doubtless gone to the hospital and told him of my appearance there had been no way for me to guard against that. He had easily guessed the rest. He had only to consult the passenger list to assure himself that Mr. Royce and I were aboard. And he was following us, hoping what?
"But I had to go to the Jourdains'," I protested, "and I couldn't help their going to him to have asked them not to go would have made them suspect me at once." "Oh, yes; but, at least, you needn't have sent them. They might not have gone at all certainly they wouldn't have gone so promptly if you hadn't sent them." "Sent them?"
The very day I set out on my search, he was picked up on the streets somewhere suffering with apoplexy and taken to a hospital, so nearly dead that it was a question whether he would recover. So he's out of it. The Jourdains told me that the women had sailed for France." "You will pardon me," said my hearer, "but in what way did you make sure that they were the women you desired?"
Perhaps the records of that institution contain things more disgraceful to the aristocracy of England, than the whole history of Europe can furnish. And how could the Monsieur and Madame Jourdains help following the servile and debasing example of Monseigneur le Duc et Pair?"
For it seems to me, that you were sent to Cambridge by One greater than, your parents, in order that you might learn it, and bring it home hither for the use of the M. Jourdains round you here, who have no doubt been talking prose all their life, but may have been also talking it very badly." "You speak riddles."
"The Jourdains may tell him of my call," I said. "They'll suspect something when I don't return to-day yet they may wait for me a day or two longer they have my money and one day is all I want. It's just possible that they may keep silent altogether. They've nothing to gain by speaking it's plain that they're not in the conspiracy. Anyway, to-morrow I'll be out of reach." Mr. Graham nodded.
The girl and the married woman. She felt no jealousy and no interest in them beyond wondering which of them it would be and what they would be like. There had been two Mary Oliviers; long-haired short-haired, and she had been jealous of the long-haired one. Jealous of herself. There had been two Maurice Jourdains, the one who said, "I'll understand.
The Chevalier half spun round on his heel under the quizzing of Louise's eye-glass. "No, Angelique has not gone to Belmont," replied he, quite piqued. "She very properly declined to mingle with the Messieurs and Mesdames Jourdains who consort with the Bourgeois Philibert!
"I myself think it's rather fortunate that he's on the boat." "Fortunate? You don't mean that!" "Precisely that. Suppose the Jourdains hadn't gone to him; he'd have left the hospital anyway in two or three days he isn't the man to lie inactive when he knew you were searching for the fugitives.
Shall I ask Shakespeare to translate me his love "still climbing trees in the Hesperides"? Shall I ask Marlowe how Helen could "make him immortal with a kiss," or how, in the name of all the Monsieur Jourdains, at once her face could "launch a thousand ships and burn the topless towers of Ilion"? Could Aeschylus, if put upon the stand, defend his making Prometheus cry out,
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