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Updated: June 17, 2025
He asks no questions, accepts what is put before him, and babbles in one key very often of trifles. But food and drink are the very best of drugs. I think it was Heidsieck Dry Monopole '92 Stalky as usual stuck to Burgundy that began to unlock Mr. Wontner's heart behind my shirt-front.
We discuss what the last doctor thinks, and how the baby is, and whether we'll take the Jackson house or build or live at the Monopole and go abroad, and Nan Lawton's latest, really vital things, you see! Business is such a bore." The older woman seemed to have something on her mind and sat down again at the end of the lounge.
Through the Harmatan-haze we failed to sight Cape Juby, opposite Fuerteventura; and at Santa Cruz I missed Mr. Mackenzie, the energetic flooder of the Sahara. He has, they say, given up this impossibility and opened a comptoir: its presence is very unpleasant to the French monopolists, who seem to 'monopole' more every year.
The grocer, however, was inexorable; he repeated several times that his books were full of bad debts and his own creditors were pressing him. During their conversation the shopkeeper's eyes wandered continually to the big store on the other side of the street; the huge, gilded letters of the name 'Monopole Stores' seemed to have an irresistible attraction for him.
For a holiday, Mercury loveth the Pullman Express, and a short hour with a society paper; anon, brown boots on the pier, and the pleasant combination of Métropole and Monopole. Apollo for his part will urge the horses of the Sun: and, if he leaveth the society weekly to Mercury, yet he loveth well the Magazine.
'He seems almost too pretty for a boy, doesn't he? Ruth smiled. 'People always take him for a girl at first, she said. 'Yesterday I took him with me to the Monopole Stores to buy some things, and the manager would hardly believe it wasn't a girl. The man reached out his hand and stroked the baby's face.
A little further on, at the opposite corner, were the premises of the Monopole Provision Stores, where brilliant lights were just being extinguished, for they, like most of the other shops, were closing their premises for the night, and the streets took on a more cheerless air as one after another their lights disappeared.
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