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"Well," added Cumberly, "he is a famous novelist, and his flat, unfortunately, has been made the scene of a crime. This is Detective-Inspector Dunbar, who has come to solve our difficulties, Leroux." He turned to where Exel stood upon the hearth-rug toying with his monocle. "Mr. John Exel, M. P." "Glad to know you, gentlemen," said Dunbar.
"They broke my monocle in the struggle." Maurice choked in his cup. "I've worn it twelve years, too," went on Fitzgerald. "Everything is for the best," said Maurice. "You will be able to see out of both eyes." "Confound you!" cried Fitzgerald, smiling in spite of himself; "nothing will disturb you." "You mean, nothing shall. Now, there's the bed and there's the lounge.
I am acting editor. The work is not light," he added gratuitously. "Sometimes the cry goes round New York, 'Can Smith get through it all? Will his strength support his unquenchable spirit? But I stagger on. I do not repine. What was it that you wished to see Comrade Renshaw about?" He swung his monocle lightly by its cord.
One of the housemaids in the Longworth household left suddenly, without just cause or provocation, as the advertisements say, and in her place a girl was engaged who was so pretty that, when William Longworth caught sight of her, his monocle dropped from its usual position, and he stared at her with his two natural eyes, unassisted by science.
More, they have not frequented the wings, they have no intrigues with the actresses, they do not see the wires pulled. To them it is all real. And so they feel pleasure unalloyed. I think I see the sated sceptic, whose monocle glistens in that box, cast a disdainful glance over the smiling crowd. "Poor stupid creatures, ignorant and gross!"
"Ah, airships?" exclaimed Thomas Gray, and deliberately taking a monocle from his pocket, he stuck it in his eye and stared at David, who choked and sputtered in his glass of water, while Hippy dropped a fork that fell on his plate with a great clatter. Mrs. Gray raised her lorgnette and looked at her nephew. "Thomas," she said sternly, "don't wear that thing here.
I feel compassion for my proud father when I think of how he collected art treasures and bought paintings by distinguished artists of the time, which he would contemplate for hours through a monocle, and which formed the subject of long intricate critical speculations with his friends paintings which after all were really only trifling daubs of no value whatever at the present time.
His real name is Geltmann. Here's his pedigree in a nutshell: Born in Russia of mixed German and Swiss parentage. Educated in England, where he acquired his accent and the monocle habit. Perfected himself in scoundrelism in the competent finishing schools of the Far East. Speaks half a dozen languages, including Chinese and Japanese. Carries gilt-edged credentials made in the Orient.
Behind his monocle, his keen, mocking glance seemed like a taunting smile. "Well," he said, in a somewhat abrupt tone, as he sat near Marianne, "I congratulate you, my dear friend." "Why?" she answered with surprise. "On the great news, parbleu! Your marriage." She turned slightly pale. "How do you know? "I have seen the duke. He called on me." "On you? What for?"
He leant towards Stonehouse, his inflamed eye through the staring monocle fixing him with an extraordinary tipsy earnestness. "No, doctor, you are mis-mistaken. It would be intolerable you understand quite intolerable. There are things that that must not be true as there are other things that must be true. We've staked our last penny on it, sir, and we've got to win.
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