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Updated: May 14, 2025
Eve before the fall in all her innocence. 'I don't like your eyes, said Miss Kitty, suddenly. 'What's the matter with them? with a quizzical glance. 'They look wicked. 'Ah, then they belie the soul within, returned Vandeloup, seriously. 'I assure you, I'm a very good young man. Then I'm sure not to like you, said Kitty, gravely shaking her golden head.
Vandeloup shrugged his shoulders. 'If you put it that way yes, he answered, simply; 'but she fell into my mouth like ripe fruit. Surely, with a sneer, 'at your age you don't believe in virtue? 'Yes, I do, retorted Gollipeck, fiercely. 'More fool you! replied Gaston, with a libertine look on his handsome face.
Vandeloup, for whom a warrant was out for the murder of Lemaire, had also disappeared, and was supposed to have gone to America. Madame Midas suffered severely from the shocks she had undergone with the discovery of everyone's baseness.
The promise of rain in the afternoon was now fulfilled, and it was pouring in torrents. The gutters were rivers, and every now and then through the driving rain came the bluish dart of a lightning flash. 'Bah! said Vandeloup, with a shiver, as they got out on the station platform, 'what a devil of a night.
'Ah! you want to look at the house, I suppose, remarked M. Vandeloup, lazily; 'the building is extremely ugly, but there are some redeeming features in it. I refer, of course, to the number of pretty girls, and Gaston turned round and looked steadily at a red- haired damsel behind him, who blushed and giggled, thinking he was referring to her.
Til hae a wee drappy o' whusky if ye've got it gude, said McIntosh, cautiously, 'but I dinna care for they wines that sour on a body's stomach. McIntosh having thus graciously assented, Vandeloup took him up to the Club, and introduced him all round as the manager of the famous Pactolus.
I haven't seen him all the evening, replied Miss Twexby, tossing her head, 'now, go away. You're a naughty, wicked, deceitful thing. I declare I'm quite afraid of you. 'There's no need, I assure you, replied Vandeloup, in a slightly sarcastic voice, as he surveyed the plain-looking woman before him; 'you are quite safe from me.
In the middle of one night I still disguised as Pierre, slipped out of the window, and went up to Black Hill, where I found the nugget and brought it down to my room at the Wattle Tree Hotel. Then Vandeloup brought in the box with my clothes, and we packed the nugget in it, together with the suit I had worn at the time of the murder.
'It doesn't matter much if I do, replied Vandeloup, shrugging his shoulders, and taking a chair, 'nobody will bother much about me. 'Eh! queried the doctor, sharply, sitting up. 'Paris friends relations. 'My only relation is an aunt with a large family; she's got quite enough to do looking after them, without bothering about me, retorted M. Vandeloup; 'as to friends I haven't got one.
'Easily enough, he said, calmly, 'I went the other direction instead of the usual way, as it was the shortest route to the place I was stopping at. 'The "Wattle Tree", ye ken, Madame, interposed McIntosh. 'I had something to eat there, pursued Vandeloup, 'and then went to the theatre. Your husband came in towards the end of the performance and sat next to me.
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