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Updated: June 4, 2025
But as far as he could see with that confounded sergo staring! there was nothing else for it. He couldn't stand there in the rain forever, gossiping with a girl half-hysterical or pretending to be. "You see," she explained when the fiacre was again under way, "I thought I had a hundred-franc note in my pocketbook; and so I have but the pocketbook's back there, in my room at Troyon's."
Furthermore, before quitting the lobby, Roddy paused long enough to instruct the vestiaire to have a fire laid in his room. So he was stopping at Troyon's and didn't care who knew it!
Somnambulists are sincere indeed in the indulgence of their failing when they time their expeditions so opportunely and arm themselves with keys to fit strange doors. Come to think of it, he had been rather willfully blind to that flaw in her excuse.... Again, why should she be up and dressed and so madly bent on leaving Troyon's at half-past four in the morning?
As they drew near Troyon's, however, Lanyard sat up and jealously reconnoitered both sides of the way. "Surely you don't expect to be kept out?" the Count asked dryly. "But that just shows how little you appreciate our good Popinot. He'll never object to your locking yourself up where he knows he can find you but only to your leaving without permission!" "Something in that, perhaps.
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