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Come now, in a cab, and I'll pay for it. . . . Thank you! Thank you, ma'am! Thank you!" He banged up the receiver and flew out the basement door. When he reached the news-stand, he stood with his hands twitching, talking to himself for a half hour before Diana appeared. She walked up to him as directly as a man would have done. "What's happened, Jonas?"
Gerald came back from his stroll into the town, with his hands full of English papers; Gerald had even found a New York paper at the news-stand; and he listened with an apparent postponement of interest. "I think," Lanfear said, "that she has some shadowy recollection, or rather that the facts come to her in a jarred, confused way the elements of pictures, not pictures.
There is scarcely a news-stand in any country of Continental Europe where one may not purchase a newspaper openly or secretly opposed to the government, not merely attacking an unpopular administration or minister or ruler, but desiring and plotting the overthrow of the entire political system of the country. It is very difficult to find such a newspaper anywhere in the United States.
His arms were trembling as they enfolded her, but in his heart was a gladness that comes to but few men. "And you won't go away without me, will you?" she questioned, fearfully. "No, no!" he breathed. "Oh, Marmion, I have lost a little, but I have gained much! God has been good to me." On his way down-town Phillips stopped at a Subway news-stand and bought all the morning papers.
Whin he got to New York he stopped at the Waldorf Asthoria, an' while th' barber was powdhrin' his face with groun' dimons Jawn tol' him to take th' money he was goin' to buy a policy ticket with an' get in on th' good thing. He tol' th' bootblack, th' waiter, th' man at th' news-stand, th' clerk behind th' desk, an' th' bartinder in his humble abode.
"That you, Miss Allen? . . . This is Jonas. . . . Yes, ma'am, I'm well, but the boss is in a dangerous condition. . . . Yes, ma'am, I thought you'd feel bad because you see, it's your fault. . . . No, ma'am, I can't explain over the telephone, but if you'll come to the station and meet me at the news-stand on the corner, I'll tell you. . . . Miss Allen, for God's sake, just trust me and come along.
As he moved toward the "L" station at the corner, Sadie and his mother waved to him; in the street, boys too small to be scouts hailed him enviously; even the policeman glancing over the newspapers on the news-stand nodded approval. "You a Scout, Jimmie?" he asked. "No," retorted Jimmie, for was not he also in uniform? "I'm Santa Claus out filling Christmas stockings."
Another cove had my news-stand." Then, after a thought "Blast reconstriction!" "But you surely can't make a living selling newspapers?" "No, there's nothin' in it. There's too many at it. The blessed women spoil it.
But Christophe remembered having received a card of thanks from another of his victims, and a suspicion flashed upon him. He went out, bought the last number of the Review at a news-stand, turned to his article, and read... At first he wondered if he were going mad. Then he understood, and, mad with rage, he ran to the office of the Dionysos.
She asserted, "This silly lobby is too florid," and simultaneously she admired it: the onyx columns with gilt capitals, the crown-embroidered velvet curtains at the restaurant door, the silk-roped alcove where pretty girls perpetually waited for mysterious men, the two-pound boxes of candy and the variety of magazines at the news-stand. The hidden orchestra was lively.
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