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Quackenboss's observations, though she answered a few of them, till, at the door, she was conscious of his promising to see her to-morrow and of her instant conclusion to take measures to see nobody. How strange everything seemed. She walked through the familiar hall, feeling as if her acquaintance with every old thing was broken. There was no light in the back parlour, but a comfortable fire.
He described in graphic detail how the impostor got himself up with wigs and wax, so as to deceive even those who knew him intimately; and then he threw himself on Dr. Quackenboss's mercy, as a man who had been cruelly taken in so often that he could not help suspecting the best of men falsely. Mrs.
"Everything turns up in the end including Mrs. Quackenboss's nose." "Seymour," said my brother-in-law, "your hilarity is inopportune." To say the truth, Charles was beside himself with anger. He took the elevator down to the "Bureau," as they call it, and complained to the manager.
Charles clutched the dispatch-box with one hand, and Mrs. Quackenboss's little palm with the other. "Don't tell us," he said, "this is good-bye for ever!" And his voice quite faltered. "I guess so, Mr. Porter," the pretty American replied, with a telling glance. "What hotel do you patronise?" "The Murray Hill," Charles responded. "Oh my, ain't that odd?" Mrs. Quackenboss echoed. "The Murray Hill!
You appear to have imbibed the habits and manners of the Kaffirs you lived among." For the next two days, I will really admit, Charles seemed more wretched than I could have believed it possible for him to be on somebody else's account. He positively grovelled. The fact was, he saw he had hurt Dr. Quackenboss's feelings, and much to my surprise he seemed truly grieved at it.
Quackenboss's observations, though she answered a few of them, till, at the door, she was conscious of his promising to see her to-morrow, and of her instant conclusion to take measures to see nobody. How strange everything seemed! She walked through the familiar hall, feeling as if her acquaintance with every old thing was broken. There was no light in the back parlour, but a comfortable fire.
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