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"Yes" Innocent spoke almost mechanically "I had a few minutes' conversation with her." "She's very handsome," went on Miss Leigh. "She used to be quite beautiful. A pity she has no children." Innocent was silent. The motor-brougham glided along. "You and Mr. Jocelyn seem to get on very well together," observed the old lady, presently.
"Now, to-morrow morning, get your cab early put your friend in it dressed up, of course and at half-past nine to the very minute drive slowly past the front door of the Pompadour. You'll see a private motor-brougham there dark green you'll also see a hunchbacked gentleman enter it you can't mistake him. Follow him!
But I was ill, am ill now, and here have I been running about all day on your brother's behalf, and dead tired and ill, and all and you won't let me have a rest in the carriage " "Well, as you put it in that way..." she said. So they walked to a motor-brougham, sat within, and as they commenced to talk again, the brougham moved.
Grimmer, wife of the junior partner in the well-known City firm of Hornaday, Grimes, and Grimmer, dried fruit brokers, nodded with an affectation of sympathy which she did not feel the Marlows had a touring car and a motor-brougham, whilst she had only a one-horse carriage and held out her cup to be refilled.
I looked at my watch, pretended to be surprised, and said I must go at once. I couldn't bear to waste a second in hurrying the treaty off, so that it might the more quickly be on its way back. I hadn't come to visit Raoul in my own carriage, but in a cab, which was waiting. As Raoul was taking me to it, Count Godensky got out of a motor-brougham, and saw me.
Far better that she should never know! It was growing late, and he had promised to fetch her from the theatre. The silver clock upon the mantelshelf chimed ten. He had stretched his hand to the telephone to ring up his motor-brougham from the garage, when he heard the click of her latchkey in the outer door and the silken whisper of her garments passing quickly through the hallway.
I had thought we were going to walk, but when we had gone a little way down the avenue I saw drawn up to one side a very smart motor-brougham with a smart chauffeur on the box, and I wondered whose it might be. "It is for you, darling," my lover replied. "Do you not like it, Bawn? It is a surprise for you." I wished I could have thanked him better; but nothing gave me any pleasure.
"It began in the usual way," he goes on, waking from that stage day-dream, "with suppers and stacks of flowers, and a muff-chain of turquoise and brilliants, and ended up with " "With an electric motor-brougham and a flat in Mayfair.
Saxham tore it up and dropped it into the waste-paper basket with a contemptuous shrug. But he had made a mental note of the address, and drove there that afternoon. The Doctor's motor-brougham stopped at the door of the grimy stucco Clergy-House that is attached to St. Margaret's in Wendish Street, West.
To preserve the secret of their whereabouts, I kept my hand in the breast of my travelling coat as if I were guarding the precious parcels there, and in this way I left the lawyers' office and made for the motor-brougham, the door of which was being held open by my man Brooks. Just as I was half-way across the pavement, a man selling evening papers came rushing by and shouting "'Orrible murder!
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