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Coming out of the opera and driving through blowy, windy streets to the Waldorf, they took the table reserved for them, and Cowperwood, after consulting with regard to the dishes and ordering the wine, went back reminiscently to the music, which had been "La Boheme." The death of Mimi and the grief of Rodolph, as voiced by the splendid melodies of Puccini, interested him.
Waldorf Astor, where a rich young woman reaped astonishment and admiration by coiling a live boa constrictor around her neck, was one of the great events of the day, because the newspapers devoted two columns to it, whereas scarcely any mention was made of armies of men being out of work.
Whereupon he pulled from his pocket a cablegram, to make himself doubly sure that his was not a fool's errand, and again read it in audible tones: London, May 24, 18 . Col. Reuben Harris, Hotel Waldorf, New York. Hugh Searles, our agent, sails May twenty-fifth on Majestic. Meet him at Hotel Waldorf, New York. Guerney & Barring.
All I could think of was the sleek people walking down Fifth Avenue, and the equally sleek crowds taking tea at the Waldorf. It struck me as ludicrous that I, who had been one of them, should be lying there lunchless. For a little while I was slightly deaf with the concussions. That poem keeps on going through my head,
But he had his office in a building as large as the Grand Central Station, and was waited upon by a man in a car-conductor's cap. Cis had once peeped into the huge dining rooms of the Waldorf Astoria, this while walking along Fifth Avenue.
This was well within the truth, as was his further statement that he knew no good could come of calling at the Waldorf at this hour. "You have proved that I should have missed you." "But your card wouldn't. It would have had its silent message. Do you realize that we haven't met since " "We've met now," he interposed hastily; "and I'm another man." "Don't tell me the old one's wholly gone."
Liebling, who had already been in Boston and Washington, was perfectly delighted with America. "What do you think of the New York hotels? I am living at the Waldorf. Aren't they magnificent? I have four rooms in the front. Such quiet, such luxury, such beautiful pictures! You feel as if you were in the Arabian Nights. Doctor von Kammacher, you positively must go to Delmonico's.
The evening was interminable. The reading at the Waldorf, at which all the women had been present, had revived the discussion of the "Aubyn Letters" and Glennard, hearing his wife questioned as to her absence, felt himself miserably wishing that she had gone, rather than that her staying away should have been remarked.
'Tis a pa-per I'd like to see. I'd like to know how th' Jook iv Marlbro'd do th' McGovern fight. An' some day Willum Waldorf Asthor'll be able to wurruk f'r his own pa-aper, f'r he's goin' to be a earl or a markess or a jook or somethin' gran'. Ye can't be anny iv these things without money, Hinnissy, an' he has slathers iv it." "Where does he get it?" demanded Mr. Hennessy.
The Colonel presented a handful of half-burned cigar-stubs. "No choice. They're all twenty-five-centers, assorted from a Waldorf lot." "Thanks." Humphrey took three. The Colonel, reserving one for his own use, dropped the rest into his outer pocket. And now eleven men passed, smoking, eleven unapproachables, before one dropped a burning stump.
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