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Updated: September 8, 2025
I shall see you before nine-thirty, I hope. Remember, Patti is singing." As he closed the door behind him, Dorian Gray touched the bell, and in a few minutes Victor appeared with the lamps and drew the blinds down. He waited impatiently for him to go. The man seemed to take an interminable time over everything. As soon as he had left, he rushed to the screen, and drew it back.
After a day and an evening well filled with detail, Blount went to the station to take the nine-thirty west-bound, since the first of the three speaking engagements all of which had been promptly accepted by wire lay in that direction. On the platform, whither he went to consult the bulletin-board, he found Gantry.
At nine-thirty he pulled the edge of Anthony's blanket and spoke a few terse words Anthony never remembered clearly what they were and rather suspected they were deprecative; then he served breakfast on a card-table in the front room, made the bed and, after asking with some hostility if there was anything else, withdrew. In the mornings, at least once a week, Anthony went to see his broker.
Louis demanded, in great excitement. "Cutler was the name, and they had left early to take the steamer for New York," they told him. "What was her hour for sailing?" cried the young man. "Nine-thirty," he was informed. Louis looked at his watch. It lacked fifteen minutes of the time. "A carriage! a carriage!" he cried, as he dashed out of the hotel and down the steps at a break-neck pace.
The gig had been ordered again for nine-thirty, to pull to the Barbican Steps and be ready at ten to bring the officers on board. But before nine-thirty I began to have my serious doubts about sending her. It was just as well I had. "For by nine-forty-five it was blowing a real gale, and by ten o'clock something like a hurricane.
Nevertheless I knew that he was interested, for it was at this stage that he irritably silenced my references to the nine-thirty train. "Swift, I don't know whether I can make you see it in the way I do. It is all so marvellous and strange; the canvas is so big, and I can't handle my colors very well.
About nine-thirty o'clock in the evening I was seated in my office, when a noise outside in the hallway attracted my attention and gave me the impression that something unusual was afoot.
In a few minutes the man returning said, "Want me with you? He got in easily." "No, but take the time when I enter and keep near." They waited. "Nine-thirty now, sir." "Give me the full time." Penhallow went up the steps and knocked at the door. It was opened and he went in. "Shut the door quietly, Josiah open if the policeman knocks.
The day had begun for the T. A. Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company. The psychology of that is interesting. Hortense knew that by nine-thirty Mrs. McChesney's desk would be clear and that the buzzer would summon her.
"Miss Neugass this is not the time. Not now." A cocaine sort of courage seemed to lock her face back into its rather nondescript immobility. "You're right," she said. "I'm acting like a fool," and rose. "What I came in to say, get into that little pink dress of yours about nine-thirty and I may be able to manage it for you to-night.
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