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Updated: May 19, 2025
"Behold me, as ever, your obedient servant," he said, as he followed her into the screened-off portion of the porch. "You must think it strange that I sent for you, I know," she cried, as she turned to him. "But I couldn't wait. I I did not know until last night. Howard only told me then. Oh, you didn't do it for me! Please say you didn't do it for me!"
He did not find the sculptor in his screened-off nook; prompted by a wish to speak to his mother, Pollux had gone down to the gatehouse where he was now standing before her and frankly narrating, with many eager gestures of his long arms, all that had occurred on the previous night.
The clerk was gone for some moments, to the manifest annoyance of a dozen miners who wanted his attention. When he returned he motioned us to a screened-off private office in the rear. "Mr. Brown will see you," said he. We found Brown to be a florid, solidly built man of fifty, with a keen eye and a brown beard. He nodded to us briefly and looked expectant.
Mackwayte would require for the sketches he would play that evening. In the middle of it all the throbbing of a car echoed down the quiet road outside. Then there came a ring at the front door. At half-past nine that night, Barbara found herself standing beside her father in the wings of the vast Palaceum stage. Just at her back was the little screened-off recess where Mr.
"Behold me, as ever, your obedient servant," he said, as he followed her into the screened-off portion of the porch. "You must think it strange that I sent for you, I know," she cried, as she turned to him. "But I couldn't wait. I I did not know until last night. Howard only told me then. Oh, you didn't do it for me! Please say you didn't do it for me!"
"Who would ever have thought that we would get to be moving picture girls? I think " "Hush!" cautioned Alice, raising her hand for silence. Then the two girls heard some men in the next screened-off place talking, and one of them spoke loudly enough to be overheard. "I'm sure we can get it," he was saying. "It's a nice little patent, and all the movies in the country will want it.
He did not find the sculptor in his screened-off nook; prompted by a wish to speak to his mother, Pollux had gone down to the gatehouse where he was now standing before her and frankly narrating, with many eager gestures of his long arms, all that had occurred on the previous night.
Lucilla having discovered the man's hat for him, restored to the woman the wrist-bag and pocket-handkerchief and parcel she would have left behind her, and watched the pair from the room, yawned aloud as she piled the soiled teacups, plates, and saucers on the little brown Japanese tray, and carried them to that screened-off angle of the room where china was washed and bread and butter cut all the day long.
When the architect, after begging him not to let Pollux know of the incident, told him of what had occurred in the screened-off studio, and how angry the young Roman lady had been at the caricature, which was certainly very offensive, Hadrian rubbed his hands and laughed aloud with delight.
This was not a very pleasant anecdote, Lawrence thought, on which to retire to rest, so he changed the subject by asking Pedro if there were many of the Incas still remaining. Before he could reply Manuela rose, and, bidding them good-night in Spanish, retired to her screened-off corner.
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