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There was no time for hesitation. Rushford took it, signed the blank, and fished up the expected tip. "Oh, what a tangled web we weave!" he murmured, and looked at the address on the little white envelope. It read: M. le Propriétaire, Grand Hôtel Royal, Weet-sur-Mer. "The plot thickens!" he murmured. "Well, it's really for me. Let's see," and he tore it open.
A trifle always humiliating sometimes inconvenient occasionally impossible. No, Madame, mine is a serious mission; a mission of the highest importance, both socially and commercially. May I beg that you will have the goodness to place my card in the hands of Monsieur le propriétaire, and say that I request the honor of five minutes' interview."
At last they purchased a tiny metal Louis Quinze timepiece for eleven francs seventy-five centimes, congratulating themselves on the surplus of twenty-five centimes from their three weeks' savings. Madame Valière packed it with her impedimenta into the carpet-bag lent her by Madame la Propriétaire.
It was at ze conclusion of some arrangement commercial, when mon ami ze propriétaire say to me: 'Bäader, it is ze abandoned season in Paris. Why not arrange for ze gentlemen in Normandy? The number of francs a day will be at least'" here Bäader scrutinized carefully the governor's face "at least to ze amount of ten' is it not so, messieurs?
"Monsieur de Van Staats, est grand propriétaire sur la rivière, and one day, peut-être, he shall be propriétaire sur la mèr!" "I have thought of imitating the example of the Alderman, honest Francis, and of building a villa on the coast; but there will be time for that, when I shall find myself more established in life! Your young mistress is not yet moving, Francis?"
Monsieur le proprietaire presented himself. "Monsieur," he announced, "it is my honor to conduct you to the table reserved for madame and yourself. Madame awaits you." The gardens of the Maison Leon d'Or were, in their way, unique.
Even their common failure to win a sou did not draw them from their freezing depths of silence, from which every passing year made it more difficult to emerge. Some greater conjuncture was needed for that. It came when Madame la Propriétaire made her début one fine morning in a grey wig. Hitherto that portly lady's hair had been black.
It was easy to see that the person before me had spared neither skill, time, nor expense to make as favorable an impression on his possible employers as lay in his power. "At the moment of the arrival of ze dépêche télégraphique," Bäader continued, "I was in ze office of monsieur ze propriétaire.
To see her standing before the mirror in the salon!" "The beautiful spectacle!" assented Madame Valière. "Ah! but I don't forget if she does that her mother wheeled a fruit-barrow through the streets of Tonnerre!" "Ah! yes, I knew you were from Tonnerre dear Tonnerre!" "How did you know?" "Naturally, Madame la Propriétaire." "The old gossip!" cried Madame Dépine "though not so old as she feigns.
These possessions constituted the patrimonial estate of Francois Lenoble, proprietaire, of Beaubocage, near Vevinordin, the department of Eure.
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