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He waved the disengaged arm from a distance, but at close quarters, arrested before Renouard's immobility, he made no offer to shake hands. He seemed to appraise the aspect of the man with a sharp glance, and made up his mind. "We are going back by Suez," he began almost boisterously. "I have been looking up the sailing lists.
But here's that old woman the butler's wife listen to this. She writes: All I can tell you, Miss, is that my poor husband directed his letters to the name of H. Walter." Renouard's violent but repressed exclamation was lost in a general murmur and shuffle of feet. "Miss Moorsom, allow me to congratulate you from the bottom of my heart on the happy er issue. . . "
Adopt M. Renouard's principle; after that of what use will marks be? Of what importance is it to me to read on the cork of a bottle, instead of TWELVE-CENT WINE or FIFTEEN-CENT WINE, WINE-DRINKERS' COMPANY or the name of any other concern you will? What I care for is not the name of the merchant, but the quality and fair price of the merchandise.
He shook gently Renouard's arm. "Yes, for all of us! One may meditate on life endlessly, one may even have a poor opinion of it- -but the fact remains that we have only one life to live. And it is short. Think of that, my young friend." He released Renouard's arm and stepped out of the shade opening his parasol.
"You are a heaven-born discoverer and a first-rate manager. . . He's right. It's the only way. You can't resist the claim of sentiment, and you must even risk the voyage to Malata. . . " Renouard's voice sank. "A lonely spot," he added, and fell into thought under all these eyes converging on him in the sudden silence.
"Birds have been hovering over this for many a day." "I doubt it, sir. If he had been drowned anywhere within a mile from the shore the body would have been washed out on the reefs. And our boats have found nothing so far." Nothing was ever found and Renouard's disappearance remained in the main inexplicable.
I ask M. Renouard's permission to translate his thought by reversing his phrase: Regulation was a corrective of privilege. For whoever says regulation says limitation: now, how conceive of limiting privilege before it existed?
Renouard's drawings at the Exhibition of 1900 were, perhaps, more beautiful than the rest of his work. There was notably a series of studies made from the first platform of the Eiffel Tower, an accumulation of wonders of perspectives framing scenes of such animation and caprice as to take away one's breath. Finally, Auguste Lepère appears as the Debucourt of our time.
"Nothing except. . . ." Incipient grimness vanished out of Renouard's aspect and his voice, while he hesitated as if reflecting seriously before he changed his mind. "No. Nothing whatever." "You haven't brought him along with you by chance for a change." The Planter of Malata stared, then shook his head, and finally murmured carelessly: "I think he's very well where he is.
I saw him sitting there lonely in a corner like a sick crow, and I went over one evening to talk to him. Just on impulse. He wasn't impressive. He was pitiful. My worst enemy could have told you he wasn't good enough to be one of Renouard's victims. It didn't take me long to judge that he was drugging himself. Not drinking. Drugs." "Ah! It's now that you are trying to murder him," she cried.
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