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For, hurry as he might upon other occasions, nothing would make the Major cut a corner of his winding "drive" when descending it with a visitor. He enjoyed every yard of its length, because it was his own at every step, and he counted his paces in an under-tone, to be sure of the length, for perhaps the thousandth time.
I looked up, and beheld the hated face of Monsieur Dominique Gayarre. It was his first visit since the morning after my arrival upon the plantation. What could he want with me? I was not kept long in suspense, for my visitor, without even apologising for his intrusion, opened his business abruptly and at once.
"At any rate, he was an important visitor, Tayoga," said the hunter, "and since we've had a good look at him we're glad he's gone away. I think it likely now that all who wanted to look at us have had their look, and we might go to sleep. How are your leaves, Robert?" "Fine and soft. They make a splendid bed, and I'm off to slumberland."
"The boy," he said, "could have been no more than an ordinary visitor. He had no great sum of money with him, he had no secrets, he did not even speak the language. Surely he would have been too small fry for the intriguers of such a place!" "One would think so," Spencer answered musingly. "You are sure that he was only what you say?"
Giddings had been quite a frequent visitor at the fair-grounds all through the summer, lending a voice of encouragement throughout the operations. He looked really concerned, however, when Paul and Bob had to return to Clark Polytechnic Institute for the new term of study.
"You will come in and see us as often as you can while you are here?" said the kindly rector, as if vaguely conscious of a change in this visitor. "You will always find a welcome whether you come in a coach-and-four or on foot you know that." "Thank you yes. I know that." The rector peered at him through his spectacles. "I hope," he said, "that you will soon be successful in getting your own.
It was not late, and yet we were both very much surprised when there came a knock at the door, followed by the entrance of a visitor. "Mrs. L'Hommedieu, who was always la grande dame, rose without apparent embarrassment to meet the gentleman who entered, though I knew she could not help but feel keenly the niggardly appearance of the board she left with such grace.
Their palm oil is very poor, as if they had only just learned the art of making it. After the daily siesta, which lasted till 3 P. M., Mr. Tippet asked me to put in an appearance at a solemn dance which, led by the king's eldest daughter, was being performed in honour of the white visitor. A chair was placed in the verandah, the street being the ballroom.
The maid hesitated a moment, then said falteringly, "I will see, sir," and left him standing in the obscure passage. Without loss of time, M. Belmont himself stepped forward. Bowing stiffly and looking up in the vain attempt to distinguish the features of his visitor, he said: "To whom am I indebted for this call?"
The Kid had just gone to bed and we Henry, Marion and I had foregathered in the study. Marion spends most of her time with us, being one of those delightfully restful persons who doesn't need to be 'entertained, who doesn't talk to you if you want to do a little writing at meal times, and is altogether a desirable visitor.
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