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Updated: June 23, 2025
He thoroughly indorsed the principle of the old roué's advice to his grandson: "Be good, and you may be happy but you'll have d d little fun," taking care to italicise the word "may." For he had found that the first clause of the saw had brought him neither happiness nor fun. With his fellow-passengers on board the Persian he was neither popular nor the reverse.
His skin was that of an old roue's, patched up and chalked, but the features were those of a once handsome man of style and carriage. He wore what appeared to be a cast-off spring overcoat, out of season and color on this blustering winter day, a rich buff waistcoat of an embossed pattern, such as few persons would care to assume, save, perhaps, a gambler, negro buyer, or fine "buck" barber.
He wondered why? Had Bower been too confident, too sure of his prey to guard his tongue? Of all the unlooked for developments that could possibly be bound up with the harmless piece of midsummer madness that sent Helen Wynton to Switzerland, surely this roué's presence was the most irritating and perplexing. Then from the road came another stanza from the wine bibbers, now homeward bound.
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