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I'm crossing now and going to Nice by the Côte d'Azur Express to-morrow night. And see after a seat for me, will you?" "I'll reserve a compartment if possible, Mr. Chayne." The station master raised his hat and departed. Jaffery, his hands stuffed deep in his pockets, beamed upon us like a mountainous child. We were all impressed by his lordly command of the railway systems of Europe.
"That's what is required. How did you happen to pick out your name?" We both laughed. Indeed, if our meeting were compared to all the luxury and brilliance of the Cote d'Azur, or Petrograd it was laughable. "Have we anything to eat?" she asked. "I came home for my supper," I said. "I have some trash in the pantry." She acted as if she were trying to justify her presence, it was clear.
It was only at half past eleven that Fandor had been able to tear himself away from the de Naarboveck house. Fandor wandered on the boulevards a long time before he returned to his flat. On his table, near his portmanteau ready strapped for departure, he found the Railway Guide lying open at the page showing the lines from Paris to the Côte d'Azur! He would not look at the seductive time-table.
He was reveling in the idea that a few hours hence he would be installed in a comfortable sleeping compartment, to awake next morning on the wonderful Côte d'Azur, inundated with light, drenched in the perfume of tropical flowers, bathed in the radiance of eternal summer.
She inquired about me how long had I been in the Count's service, how I liked him, and such-like; while I, by careful questioning, discovered that her name was Gabrielle Deleuse, and that she came to the Côté d'Azur each season.
She was fascinated, listening again to those shadow-voices that were always precursory of death the fatal Whispers. It was February not the foggy, muddy February of dear, damp Old England, but winter beside the bright blue Mediterranean, the winter of the Cote d'Azur.
The heraldic embellishments of this family tree offer a particular interest in that the armorial blazonings are in accord with a decree of the French Tribunal, handed down a few years since, which establishes the right to the head of the house to bear the écu plein de France d'azur a trois fleurs de lys d'or, thus establishing the Orleans legitimacy.
Away across the white balustrade of the broad magnificent terrace the calm sapphire sea was deepening as the winter afternoon drew in. An engine whistled that of the flower train which daily travels express from Cannes to Boulogne faster than the passenger train-deluxe, and bearing mimosa, carnations, and violets from the Cote d'Azur to Covent Garden, and to the florists' shops in England.
It seemed that I had only been in the train quite a little while when it stopped, yet Laroche is more than an hour from Paris, quite a countryside station, and it seems strange that the Cote d'Azur should stop there. That was the grand name of the train that I was travelling by.
"But surely she hasn't long been out of the schoolroom." "Schoolroom!" echoed Regnier. And both men burst out laughing. "Look here, Ewart," he said, "you'd better get on that demon automobile of yours and run back to your own London. You're far too innocent to be here, on the Côte d'Azur, in Carnival time." "And yet I fancy I know the Riviera and its ways as well as most men," I remarked.
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