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"And who is this young girl?" "If you knew what a chance what happy chance! She was one of my chums in Saint Lazare a very extraordinary girl, you be sure!" "How is that?" "Imagine that I loved her and hated her because she at the same time planted both death and happiness in my heart." "She?" "Yes; concerning you." "Me?" "Listen, Martial." Then, interrupting herself, she added, "No, no.
If it cost him nothing, Aubert was the last man to decline an invitation of the kind. A trip to Chatou was arranged for Ascension Day, May 18, by the train leaving Paris from the St. Lazare Station, at half-past eight in the evening. On the afternoon of that day Fenayrou, his wife and his brother sent the children to their grandmother and left Paris for Chatou at three o'clock.
The concierge had hailed him as he hurried through to climb the wide shallow stairs and to keep his appointment with Betty when she should leave the atelier. "But yes, Mademoiselle had departed this morning at nine o'clock. To which station? To the Gare St. Lazare. Yes Mademoiselle had charged her to remit the billet to Monsieur. No, Mademoiselle had not left any address.
La Couteau quickly sprang from the cab as soon as they reached the courtyard of the St. Lazare Station. "Thank you, monsieur, you have been very kind," said she. "And if you will kindly recommend me to any ladies you may know, I shall be quite at their disposal." Then Mathieu, having alighted on the pavement in his turn, saw a scene which detained him there a few moments longer.
Lazare, he uttered words of encouragement and cheer which failed to justify themselves after the four travellers' embarkment at Cherbourg. "You will have splendid weather," he had declared. "It will be fine all the way over." When the steamer passed out of the breakwater into the English Channel she breasted a northeaster that lasted all the way to the Banks.
"Come, here's the name of your quarry," he said, taking from his leather wallet a letter bearing a London stamp, upon which the address, "To Mademoiselle Paquita Valdes, Rue Saint Lazare, Hotel San-Real, Paris," was written in long, fine characters, which spoke of a woman's hand.
When he knew the sitting would be very late he sent me word and I used to go and dine with mother, but sometimes he was kept on there from hour to hour. I had some long waits before we could dine, and Hubert, the coachman, used to spend hours in the courtyard of the Gare St. Lazare waiting for his master.
We think we ought to inform the most scrupulous of our readers that the prison of Saint Lazare, specially devoted to prostitutes and female thieves, is daily visited by several ladies, whose charities, name, and social position command general respect.
Any other young man would have obeyed his impulse to obtain at once some information about a girl who realized so fully the most luminous ideas ever expressed upon women in the poetry of the East; but, too experienced to compromise his good fortune, he had told his coachman to continue along the Rue Saint Lazare and carry him back to his house.
Lazare station at the hour for the departure of the Havre express. He arrived with only a minute to spare before the guard's whistle was answered by the mosquitolike pipe that sets the train in motion. The Botticelli profile was very haughty and cold. Miss Snell was there, of course, bathed in tears.
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