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'Paulo's Hotel, said Mrs. Selwyn; 'that seems to be quite the place for exiled potentates to put up at. The ex-King of Capri stopped there during his recent visit, and the chiefs from Mashonaland. 'And Don Herrera de la Mancha, who claims the throne of Spain, said the Duke. 'And the Rajah of Khandur, added Mrs.
Paulo's Hotel was like other hotels, a gossiping place, and it is to be feared that Dolores understood better than Captain Sarrasin supposed, the hasty and speedily-qualified allusion to the General and the pretty wife. 'Well, you see, Sarrasin summed up, 'I happen to have been in Gloria, and know something of what is going on there.
Another table nearer the window, set apart for the Dictator's own use, had everything ready for business had, moreover, in a graceful bowl of tinted glass, a large yellow carnation, his favourite flower, the flower which had come to be the badge of those of his inclining. This, again, was a touch of Miss Paulo's sympathetic handiwork.
He avenged himself by planting wayward and alarming desires in Paulo's fertile soul. Suddenly the mission was filled with the sound of clamorous silver: the bells were ringing for vespers a vast, rapid, unrhythmical, sweet volume of sound which made the Devil stamp his hoofs and gnash his teeth.
'It was only a mission to call on you at Paulo's Hotel, Sarrasin said; 'and his Excellency was kind enough to offer to drive me there. Now that you are here you have completed my mission for the moment. Shall we not go in? 'I am afraid I must get back to town, Ericson said. 'Surely surely our friends will quite understand how much your time is taken up.
Of course, since I have been in Paulo's Hotel I have heard all about your record, and it is a pride and a privilege to me to make your acquaintance. And we need hardly say, sir, my friend and I, what a surprise it is to have the honour of making your acquaintanceship on the occasion of the first visit we have ventured to pay to the house of our distinguished friend Professor Sarrasin.
Are there so many pickings in your position that you are rich, Paulo?" "No; I am a poor man." "Well, under certain circumstances, I could make you rich." Paulo's eyes glistened, but he made no direct reply. Finally he said, in a frightened whisper, "I have tarried too long, I am watched. By- and-by the vigilance will be relaxed, and then we may perhaps talk of riches."
Cecil, Paulo's old servant, approached from the house, with a lantern in his hand. He comes down the alley with hasty steps, and with an anxious countenance approaches his master. "What is it, Cecil?" "Two letters, sir, that have just arrived. One comes from the hotel of the Russian legation, and the other from that of the Lord-Cardinal Bernis."
A young Englishman of high family, of education, of some means, he had attached himself to Ericson years before at a time when Hamilton, fresh from the University, was taking that complement to a University career a trip round the world, at a time when Ericson was just beginning that course of reform which had ended for the present in London and Paulo's Hotel.
"But Carlo has not filled the void that Paulo's absence has left in my heart. At first I thought he could, but that was only a short deception. Carlo is good and kind, always devoted, always ready to serve me. He always conforms himself to my will, is all subjection, all obedience. But that is terrible, unbearable!" exclaimed the almost weeping young maiden.
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