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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.
"Well, now, doos it reely matter to you, sonny?" "Pardner, it don' matter to me a d n, if you say so! I was jus' askin' myself what a man would look for if he los' it here. Since I strike this 'ell of a place the very groun' been chewed up and spit out reg'lar, one hundred times a year. 'T'is a gris' mill!" "I didn't gretly expect to find what I was lookin' for.
"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.
"Yes, I think it would better be in private that is, if you can accomplish it in this bedlam." "Oh, I haf a place, monsieur, where no one will intrude," and Pelletan led the way through the hotel office to a little door back of the desk. "T'is iss my vat you call eet in English? my sty, my kennel " "Your den." "Iss t'ere a difference?" asked Pelletan, fumbling with the lock.
So education, modification, must begin afresh vit' each generation and continue forefer. But t'is bacillus does not add ornament to t'e outside. It is not like t'e masseuse, vit' her unguents and kneading. It changes all t'e nature. It is like compressing a million years of education by natural selection into von lifetime. T'at is my t'eory. I do not know it is not yet tried but how ot'ervise?
"We had made a success of t'e pusiness," Pelletan explained, "unt I brought mit me my share of t'e profits, which seemed only fair, since I, py my labour, had earned t'em. Unt t'en I took a lease of t'is place, unt did well until t'is year. T'at iss my whole history, monsieur. T'at iss why I dare not return to Paris, efen for a small visit in winter when pusiness here iss pad.
Our ot'er customers haf followed heem like sheep! Eet iss as t'ough we had lost our star!" "Your star?" "In t'e guide-book off Monsieur Karl," Pelletan explained. "Is that such a tragedy?" "I haf always t'ought it t'e fery worst t'at could happen," said Pelletan, "but t'is iss as pad." It was only by a supreme effort that Rushford managed to choke back the chuckle which rose in his throat.
"But monsieur does not know does not understand. Tis all t'is iss my life; eet iss here t'at I liff not out t'ere," with a gesture of disgust toward the door. "I could no more liff wit'out t'is t'an wit'out my head!" Rushford, looking at him curiously, saw that he was in deadly earnest. "Really," he said, "you surprise me, Pelletan. I had never suspected in you such depth of soul."
"Sergean', you will arrest t'is rogue and t'is lady," he waved his hand from Richard to Ruth "and you will take t'em to lock..up." The sergeant advanced towards Richard, who drew a step away from him. Ruth rose to her feet in agitation. Mr. Wilding interposed himself between her and the guard, his hand upon his sword. "My lord," he cried, "do they teach no better courtesy in France?"
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