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Trigger took another seat a few feet away. She felt a little nervous, but she'd always wanted to see a high-powered diplomat in action. The screen lit up. She recognized Roadgear from his pics. Tall, fine-looking man of the silvered sideburns type. He was in an armchair in a very plush office. "Congratulations, Commissioner!" he said, smiling.
No need to ask what had happened to Murdoch's recommendation. He joined Izzy in the locker room, summing up the situation. "Yeah." Izzy looked worried, his thin face pinched in. "Maybe I didn't do you a favor, gov'nor, pulling you here. I dunno. I got some pics of Trench from a guy I know. That's how I got my beat so fast in the Seventh.
'Be hanged if it's anything remotely resembling a woman; and if you begin to talk like that, I'll hire a red-brick studio with white paint trimmings, and begonias and petunias and blue Hungarias to play among three-and-sixpenny pot-palms, and I'll mount all my pics in aniline-dye plush plasters, and I'll invite every woman who maunders over what her guide-books tell her is Art, and you shall receive 'em, Torp, in a snuff-brown velvet coat with yellow trousers and an orange tie.
"Look at Señora Jonas, the mother! Well may she weep tears of pride! She is a great lady Señora Jonas. Just now she have condescended to say to me, ''Ow-de-do? and me, I bow low. 'A los pics de V. señora! I say. Ay Dios! if I but had a child with yellow hair, like the Señorita Edith May! Que chula!" "Sh!" breathed Jane. "There's my Lola on the platform!" Lola had grown tall in the past year.
Can't things stay as they are? I do want your help. 'You shall have it. But let's consider. I must see your pics first, and overhaul your sketches, and find out about your tendencies. You should see what the papers say about my tendencies! Then I'll give you good advice, and you shall paint according. Isn't that it, Maisie? Again there was triumph in Dick's eye.
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