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Updated: June 13, 2025
"We were all pretty tired, but Marnier was, especially done up. He had recently been working very hard for the 'first' with which he had left Oxford, and was not in good condition.
When we got to the door of the 'Rendezvous des Amis' Marnier stood still again, and looked down the deserted, moonlit camel market. "'I never knew air like this, he said in a low voice. "And once more he expelled the air from his lungs, and drew in a long, slow breath, as a man does when he has finished his dumbbell exercise in the morning. "'Don't drink too much of it, I said.
The discovery of this sort of community of tastes is like the meeting in far foreign countries of a man who speaks the tongue of one's mother land. The two lingered long over their coffee, and the "Grand Marnier" which their liking for "The Garden of Lies" led to their ordering. Betty had forgotten Vernon, forgotten Lady St. Craye, in the delightful interchange of: "Oh, I do like "
He was in plain clothes; he was looking for Martin Hillyard, and no stranger but would have set him and the man for whom he was looking in the same category of races. The Commandant Marnier saw Martin Hillyard clearly enough long before he reached the foot of the stairs. But nevertheless he greeted him with an appearance of surprise. "But what luck!" he said aloud. "You leave by this train?"
But if the nature of such men were subdued to what it worked in, that charge could not be brought against ministers with the learning and accomplishments of Ambrose Wille, Marnier, Guy de Bray, or Francis Junius, the man whom Scaliger called the "greatest of all theologians since the days of the apostles."
And all down the hill to our left for the land rose to where the inn stood fires gleamed, and we could see half-naked figures passing and repassing them, and others squatting beside, looking like monks in their hooped burnouses. "'You are going out, messieurs? said the aumônier politely. "I looked at Marnier. "'You're too done up, I expect? I said to him.
"'Certainly, I replied, in some astonishment. "'Your friend is young. "'Marnier? "'Is that his name? Well, I would not leave him to stroll about too much alone, if I were you. "'Why, monsieur? "'He is likely to get into trouble. The people here are a wild and violent race.
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