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The victoria went on a little way beyond the turn of the drive, drew out of the line of carriages, and stopped. "Ah, Monsieur Mellin," she cried, as he came up, "I am glad! I was so foolish yesterday I didn' give you the address of my little apartment an' I forgot to ask you what is your hotel. I tol' you I would come here for my drive, but still I might have lost you for ever.
"I don't know what you're getting at, but it seems to me that you're speaking disrespectfully of an angel that I've insulted, and I " "Now see here, Mellin, I'll tell you something." The boy's white face showed sudden color and there was a catch in his voice. "I was I've been mighty near in love with that woman! But I've had a kind of a shock; I've got my common-sense back, and I'm not, any more.
Standing with one arm uplifted to the curtains, and with the mellow glow of candles and firelight behind her, she was so lovely that both Mellin and Cooley stood breathlessly still until she changed her attitude. This she did only to move toward them, extending a hand to each, letting Cooley seize the right and Mellin the left. Each of them was pleased with what he got, particularly Mellin.
They had made the fire with the covers of "Mellin's Food" boxes Mellin's Food a fine chap, Mellin Mellin? Wasn't that the name of the captain with whom he had once sailed to Baltimore?
The six hundred dollars in express company checks and the three hundred-lire bills were all the money the unhappy Mellin had in the world, and until he could return to Cranston and go back to work in the real-estate office again, he had no prospect of any more. He had not even his steamer ticket.
Mellin profoundly agreed, but, as he joined the small procession to the Countess' dinner-table, he was certain that an Italian at least knew how to make a strong one. The light in the dining-room was provided by six heavily-shaded candles on the table; the latter decorated with delicate lines of orchids.
Good-by." Mellin was partly dressed he had risen half an hour earlier and had been distractedly pacing the floor when the page knocked and he completed his toilet quickly. A closed cab stood near the fountain at the next corner. There was a trunk on the box by the driver, and the roof was piled with bags and rugs. He approached uncertainly.
"Oh, the Magnifique," Mellin answered carelessly. "I suppose everybody that one knows stops there. One does stop there, when one is in Rome, doesn't one?" "Everybody go' there for tea, and to eat, sometime, but to stay ah, that is for the American!" she laughed. "That is for you who are all so abomin-ab-ly rich!" She smiled to the Italian again, and both of them smiled beamingly on Mellin.
Leaning against the bar were Cooley and the man whom Mellin had seen lolling beside Madame de Vaurigard in Cooley's automobile in Paris, the same gross person for whom he had instantly conceived a strong repugnance, a feeling not at once altered by a closer view. Cooley greeted Mellin uproariously and Mr. Sneyd introduced the fat man. "Mr.
"I remember hearing that name." "Ah, I shall make you know him. He is a man of distinction; he did sit in your Chamber of Deputies what you call it? yes, your Con-gress. He is funny, eccentric always he roar like a lion Boum! but so simple, so good, a man of such fine heart so lovable!" "I'll be glad to meet him," said Mellin coldly.
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