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Updated: June 14, 2025
She was not what is technically called a lady, yet she was both tall and, in her way, handsome, and was far more clever than many of those who might look down upon her; for her speculative and her practical abilities were equally remarkable: besides being the first palmist of her time, she had the reputation of being able to make more clothes-pegs in an hour, and sell more, than any other woman in England.
"Now," said Warble, but before she could go further, Adam Goodsport butted in with: "Oh, please, Mrs. Petticoat oh, please! Such an opportunity! May never occur again! Oh, can't I may I not oh, dear lady, do say yes " "Lordy, what do you want to do? Speak out, man!" "Why, you see, I am a solist like a palmist you know but as to feet.
Sexton did everything he could, but it was quite useless. Whoever he was, the man never came forward, and you see there was no one except me who even knew what he was like. It was partly that which first gave me the idea of becoming a palmist. I thought that up here in the West End I was more likely to come across him than anywhere else.
"I beg pardon," said Adam, out of countenance. "Of course if they do not come the money will be returned. Now, before you go, you might tell me all you know about him, and about her. All. Omit nothing. It is not essential, but it might help me. There is a chance that it might make things clearer than they otherwise could be. The true palmist never refuses any aid."
After the supper there was to be a novel kind of entertainment: a sort of vaudeville show in which were to figure a palmist, a gentleman set down in the programme with its gilt printing as the "Celebrated Professor Cheireman"; several singers; a couple of acrobatic performers; and a danseuse: "Mlle. Terpsichore." The name struck Keith with something of sadness.
"That's because people are afraid to talk such things before you scientists. Why, every woman there has been to a palmist or mind-reader or something." "You astonish me. Have you?" "Of course! I go every little while just for fun. We all pretend that we don't believe in it, but we do. I'm scared blue every time I go to a new one they're all such creepy creatures.
Let a paragraphic biography of Girod intervene. Etienne was an opera singer originally, we gathered; but adversity and the snow had made him non compos vocis. The adversity consisted of the stranded San Salvador Opera Company, a period of hotel second-story work, and then a career as a professional palmist, jumping from town to town.
It proved to be the psychic palmist who called himself "the Pandit." He also was "born with a strange and remarkable power not meant to gratify the idle curious, but to direct, advise, and help men and women" at the usual low fee. He said in print that he gave instant relief to those who had trouble in love, and also positively guaranteed to tell your name and the object of your visit.
"'Twill be convenient in the way of greeting when he backs up to dump off the good luck." "His name," says the palmist, thoughtful looking, "is not spelled out by the lines, but they indicate 'tis a long one, and the letter 'o' should be in it. There's no more to tell. Good-evening. Don't block up the door." "'Tis wonderful how she knows," says Tobin as we walk to the pier.
A card hung by a cord to a nail indicated that Balsamo had pitched his moving tent for a few days on the first floor, in a suite of offices lately occupied by a solicitor. Considering that the people who visit a palmist are just as anxious to publish their doings as the people who visit a pawnbroker and no more it might be thought that Balsamo had ill-chosen his site. But this was not so.
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