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"It seems a bit of a come-down for him to be living in this comparative obscurity," he observed, half to himself. "I daresay he's comfortable enough, still, after the Ritzes and the Carltons..." "I heard him tell the doctor a fortnight ago that he was absolutely stony, so I suppose that accounts for it. He was going to sell his car." "Oh, I see!"
Among the habitués of the Ritzes of two continents there could not have been found another like her, for never had I beheld a face as exquisite and I've seen many. It possessed a beauty that left me helpless yet there was an indefinable sadness in it that might have suggested a haunting fear. One of the lights among the vines hung close to her, and I could see these things.