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But perfection, you vill tell me, is far to seek," he went on, without waiting for a reply. "Yet people haf learned t'at many diseases are crimes. By-and-by, we may teach t'em t'at bat organism is t'e vorst of crimes; beautiful organism t'e first duty. V'at do you say?" The fur-capped girl pushed back her chair. "Prof. Darmstetter," she said, "will you be good enough to look at my sections?"
To his challenging question, in which I saw the manner of a teacher with his pupils, I replied: "In your estimation goodness and beauty go together?" "T'ey are t'e same; how not? See t'is way." He shook his lean, reproving forefinger at a shapeless, melting mass that lay at the bottom of a second jar, exuding an ooze of viscid strings. "T'at," he spat the word out "is also sea anemone.
Rushford glanced about the deserted smoking-room. "No," he said; "I haven't seen any to fall off. I've been wondering how you managed to pay out." "Ah, monsieur," cried Pelletan, wringing his hands, "t'at iss eet I haf been paying out unt paying out until t'e las' franc iss gone. I wass at no time reech, monsieur; at t'is moment I am in ruins!" And, indeed, he looked the part.
Now let's run over this schedule of prices," and he turned to Pelletan's carefully prepared statement. "Fery well, monsieur." "I see you have two apartments de luxe at one hundred francs a day. Hereafter they will be two hundred francs." Pelletan gasped. "From t'at, off course, t'ere will be a tiscount?" he stammered. "Not a cent; not the tenth of a cent. Two hundred francs net."
More beautiful t'an any ot'er voman since t'e appearance of man on eart'. But perfectly beautiful? I do not know; I t'ink not yet. Who can tell for v'at ultimate perfection Nature destined t'e human body? But we shall see. T'at perfection you shall reach. In a veek, a mont', t'ree mont's I cannot tell. Ve must vait and experiment and still vait, but success is assured absolute success.
"I haf anticipate' monsieur's question; t'is statement will show heem." Rushford took it and glanced at the total. "Hmmmm. Four hundred and eighty francs say a hundred dollars." "T'at, monsieur," explained Pelletan, "iss based upon our present custom. As pusiness increase', so do t'e expense increase." "Of course." "But not in t'e same ratio as t'e receipts.
"To be sure; Anneke had something to say about you, though it was so much out of the way, I can hardly tell you what it was now. Oh! I remember: she said 'I have seen Mr. Littlepage, and think he has grown since we last met; he promises to make a man one of these days. What could t'at mean, Corny?" "That I am a fool, a great overgrown boy, and wish I had never seen Albany; that's what it means.
"And who betray you to t'is rogue?" "To Westmacott?" cried Blake. "He was in the plot with me. He was left to guard the rear, to see that we were not taken by surprise, and he deserted his post. Had he not done that, there had been no disaster, in spite of Mr. Wilding's intervention." Feversham's brow was dark, his eyes glittered as they rested on the traitor. "T'at true, sare?" he asked him.
"If Madame la Duchesse had only notified us of t'is honour!" protested Pelletan, with upraised hands. "I swear t'at I haff not'ing not'ing not one single apartment wort'y off madame not efen one leetle room up under t'e gutters." "Nonsense!" she interrupted, vigorously. "I have heard all that a hundred times at least. Which apartment has my nephew?" "Madame's nephew?" "Certainly, imbecile!
"I t'ink you 'ave 'urt Sare Rowland," said Feversham composedly in his bad English. "Who are you, sare?" "This lady's husband," answered Wilding, whereupon the captain stared and Feversham's brows went up in surprised amusement. "So-ho! T'at true?" quoth the latter in a tone suggesting that it explained everything to him.
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