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"After all, Thea, in spite of all, I still know you," he murmured. She took his arm and led him up to the young man who was standing beside the piano. "Mr. Landry knows all about you, Dr. Archie. He has known about you for many years." While the two men shook hands she stood between them, drawing them together by her presence and her glances.
But, playing the only ace that would allow him to score again, Paul Landry announced coldly, laying on the table four queens of spades and four knaves of diamonds: "Four thousand five hundred!" This was the final stroke. The last hand had wiped out, by eight thousand points, the possessions of Landry's adversary.
After all accounts had been reckoned, he saw that he had lost two hundred and ninety thousand francs, of which two hundred and sixty thousand in cheques belonged to Paul Landry, and the thirty thousand francs' balance to the bank. "Monsieur de Prerolles," said Paul Landry, hypocritically, "I am ashamed to win such a sum from you.
As the party filed in through the wicket, the other young man who had come with Landry Court managed to place himself next to Laura. Meeting her eyes, he murmured: "Ah, you did not wear them after all. My poor little flowers." But she showed him a single American Beauty, pinned to the shoulder of her gown beneath her cape. "Yes, Mr. Corthell," she answered, "one.
Archie looked closely at the red-headed young man for the first time, and met his lively brown eyes, full of a droll, confiding sort of humor. Mr. Landry was not prepossessing. He was undersized and clumsily made, with a red, shiny face and a sharp little nose that looked as if it had been whittled out of wood and was always in the air, on the scent of something.
Despite his long experience on the Board of Trade, Landry could see anxiety in every change of his expression, in every motion of his hands. The broker before answering the question crossed the room to the water cooler and drank a brief swallow. Then emptying the glass he refilled it, moistened his lips again, and again emptied and filled the goblet.
Debts of honor are payable within twenty-four hours, but in order to realize this sum, I shall require more time. How long a delay will you grant me?" "As long as you wish, Monsieur." "I thank you. I ask a month." A waiter appeared, bringing the pen and paper. "Oh, your word will be sufficient for me," said Landry. "Pardon me!" said the Marquis. "One never knows what may happen.
Long years after this parting scene, and when Porter had become a national man, he used to love to recount this conversation to his friends, and the impression it created upon his mind of the wonderful man who had so freely advised him. When Porter came, he explored the entire country, and selected for his home Opelousas, the seat of justice for the parish of St. Landry.
"Why, Laura, honey, don't be cross. You don't know how rushed everything was. I didn't even try to see Landry." "Did he seem very busy?" "Who, Landry? "No, no, no, Curtis." "Oh, I should say so. Why, Laura, I think, honestly, I think wheat went down to oh, way down. They say that means so much to Mr. Jadwin, and it went down, down, down. It looked that way to me.
To-night we are going to a concert, and I've found out that there's a really fine course of lectures to be given soon on "Literary Tendencies," or something like that. Quel chance. Landry is intensely interested. You've no idea what a deep mind he has, Laura a real thinker. "'But here's really a big piece of news.
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