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Time was fast flying as the two oddly-assorted comrades talked, and soon the valet appeared at the door with the perruquier in his wake, informing his master that several gentlemen waited below, and that all was in readiness for the morning toilet. "Heigh-ho!" sighed the young exquisite.
The oddly-assorted pair walked in silence until Vauxhall Bridge was in sight. Winter pulled out a watch. "What time did you say my train left Victoria?" he inquired. "Plenty of time yet to make your guess and listen to further details," scoffed Furneaux. "Frankly, I give it up.
I hurried through the rooms, hoping to see a continuation of that drama a scene of appeasement, perhaps, or of fury still implacable. But the two oddly-assorted players were not performing there. My waiter had told me he had not seen either of them before. I suppose they had arrived that day. But I was not destined to see either of them again.
Botolph's Mission Hall the oddly-assorted crowd which generally finds its way to such functions. There were smart people, just a scattering of the cultured, dowdy and dull folk, who had "helped the good cause," and expected to get as much sober entertainment in return as might be had for the asking. Then, there were the ever-present army of free sight-seers, and a leaven of real workers.
The pursy old cardinal furnishes the surviving one of the two main props of Hampton's glory. An oddly-assorted pair, indeed the delicate Italian painter, without a thought outside of his art, and the bluff English placeman, avid of nothing but honors and wealth. And the association of either of them with the spot is comparatively so slight.
Two whole days had gone by since she had been there last, and oh! how long each hour of those days had seemed! The two oddly-assorted couples passed through into the hall, and so up to the closely-guarded doors of the Club. The Baccarat Room was very full, fuller than usual, for several parties of merry, rather boisterous young men had come out from Paris to spend the evening.
The stage coach and the river steamboat furnished the means for disseminating far and wide the gross, the ghastly, the extravagant stories, the oddities of speech, the fantastic jests which emerged from the clash of diverse and oddly-assorted types.
It had never occurred to Vardri to be jealous of Emile. With the curious insight that love gives he had formed a true idea of the relationship between the oddly-assorted pair. He had never thought of himself as her lover. To him she was always the Ideal, the divinity enthroned. He was content to kiss her feet, and to lay before them service and sacrifice.
Perhaps this oddly-assorted friendship was brought about by two causes one, that Mooney was the only man on the island who knew more of the horrors of convictism than the leader of the Ring; the other, that Mooney was blind, and, to a moody, sullen man, subject to violent fits of passion and a constant suspicion of all his fellow-creatures, a blind companion was more congenial than a sharp-eyed one.
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