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"S'pose he's goin' through the whole bill," said the young man. The three were themselves lunching frugally. One of the girls had also a bowl of tomato-soup, the other a large piece of squash-pie. The young man had a ham sandwich and a cup of coffee. Smoking was allowed in the place, and the atmosphere was thick with cigarette smoke, and a warm, greasy scent of boiling and frying.
His little, ordinary soul seemed to flatten itself like an Oriental before his emperor when he spoke to Carroll sipping his bowl of tomato-soup in the cheap restaurant. He had, after all, that nobility of soul which altered circumstances could not affect.
It did not really seem to him that it was he, Arthur Carroll, who was sitting there in that smoking, greasy atmosphere, before that table covered with a stained cloth, over which the waiter had ostentatiously spread a damp napkin, with that bowl of canned tomato-soup before him, and that thick cup of coffee, with those three unhappy young creditors, who had reviled and, worse than reviled, pitied him, passing out, with the open glances of amused curiosity fastened upon him on every side.
"You needn't think, because you wear a better coat than I do, that " The man stopped and nodded his head, speechless, and went on, and was out of sight, but Carroll had seen tears in the angry eyes. He went into the restaurant, took a seat at a table, and ordered a bowl of tomato-soup.
They all had a severe and, at the same time, curious expression. One of the girls whispered to the other, and although the words were not audible, the sharp hiss reached Carroll's ears. "Wonder what he's doing in this place," she said. The other girl, the elder, craned her neck and observed what Carroll was eating. "He hasn't got anything but a bowl of tomato-soup," she replied.
This so impressed the man that he got an introduction to the young lady, proposed to her at the end of a month or so, and was accepted. Some time after the marriage he spoke of the tomato-soup accident. "I shall never forget it," said the bride. "Your conduct," said the man, "was admirable."
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