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Raggles put on his coat with the scarlet lining and went out with the tall Jagson, who smarted still under Haddo's insolence. The American sculptor paid his bill silently. When he was at the door, Haddo stopped him. 'You have modelled lions at the Jardin des Plantes, my dear Clayson. Have you ever hunted them on their native plains? 'No, I haven't.
As he was staring blankly at the menu, the conducteur from his car hurried in with the word that Madame would not breakfast until nine. She was still very sleepy. Would Monsieur Medcroft be good enough to order her coffee and rolls brought to her compartment at that hour? And would he mind seeing that the maid saw to it that Raggles surely had his biscuit and a walk at the next station?
Indefinite and unintelligible ideas, you will say; but your disapprobation should be tempered with gratitude, for these are poets' fancies and suppose you had come upon them in verse! One day Raggles came and laid siege to the heart of the great city of Manhattan.
If Pitt would not give her anything, he would get something for her some day. If she got no money from her brother-in-law, she got what was as good as money credit. Raggles was made rather easy in his mind by the spectacle of the union between the brothers, by a small payment on the spot, and by the promise of a much larger sum speedily to be assigned to him.
But the new family did not make its appearance; it was only through Raggles that she heard of their movements how Miss Crawley's domestics had been dismissed with decent gratuities, and how Mr.
A part of the money he borrowed, it is true, and at rather a high interest, from a brother butler, but the chief part he paid down, and it was with no small pride that Mrs. Raggles found herself sleeping in a bed of carved mahogany, with silk curtains, with a prodigious cheval glass opposite to her, and a wardrobe which would contain her, and Raggles, and all the family.
"Noo York," said Raggles. When "Kid" Brady was sent to the rope by Molly McKeever's blue-black eyes he withdrew from the Stovepipe Gang. So much for the power of a colleen's blanderin' tongue and stubborn true-heartedness.
'I don't believe it! she said vehemently. 'Who's Mr. Raggles? How do you know he tells the truth? And what is it to me, whether it's true or not? 'You were so sure that it made no difference what any one believed, Lydia, said the other, with calm persistency. 'And I say the same still, and I always will say it? You're glad when anybody speaks against Mr.
Gradually Raggles became conscious of certain types. One was an elderly gentleman with a snow-white, short beard, pink, unwrinkled face and stony, sharp blue eyes, attired in the fashion of a gilded youth, who seemed to personify the city's wealth, ripeness and frigid unconcern.
He thought he had tempted me. "Hang on as long as you can, for the sake of the Party." To Raggles the Party is the Alpha and Omega of things human and divine. It is the guiding principle of the Cosmos.
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