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Updated: June 3, 2025
He opened the door and found himself confronting an extraordinarily tall and thin young man in evening-dress. Lord Dawlish was a little startled. He had taken it for granted, when the bell rang, that his visitor was Tom, the liftman from downstairs, a friendly soul who hailed from London and had been dropping in at intervals during the past two days to acquire the latest news from his native land.
"Well, if you're a friend of 'ers, I daresay she'll tell you 'erself next time she sees you," said the liftman. "Any-'ow, I sha'n't. See?" "But I particularly want to know," John persisted. "Look here, I'll give you half-a-crown if you'll tell me!..." "An' I'll give you a thick ear if you don't 'op it out of this quick," the liftman retorted angrily. "I know you. Nosey Parker, that's wot you are!
At the lift the procession bowed itself away and we went up in charge of the liftman, a gorgeous individual who looked like one of the Pope's Swiss Guards. We reached the centresol in an instant. The Lieutenant led the way along the dimly lighted corridor. "Here is the sitting-room," he said, opening a door.
Before leaving Paris for Nancy and the eastern frontier, I left a portmanteau and a rug in a hotel where I had become friendly with the manager and the assistant manager, with the hall porter, the liftman, and the valet de chambre. I had discussed the war with each of these men and from each of them had heard the same expressions of horror and dismay.
"I don't believe that you've ever been a godfather before," she said, "or that you know anything at all about what it is you're supposed to be going to do." There was a knock at the door, and the liftman came in. Miss Middleton gave a little cough of recognition. "A letter, sir," he said. "Thanks.... And as I was saying, Aunt Alison," I went on in a loud voice, "you are talking rubbish." "Bah!"
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