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He therefore sent for a taxi, and a few minutes later was seated in the office of the manageress. She repeated what Matthews had already told him, and he personally interviewed the various servants with whom the Coburns had come in contact.
"Perhaps the manageress may be able to tell you something, sir. Beg pardon, but may I ask your name?" "Medenham." The man tickled the back of his ear in doubt, since he was aware that an Earl's son usually has a courtesy title. "Lord Medenham?" he hazarded. "Viscount." "I thought, perhaps, you might have been a gentleman named Fitzroy, my lord," he said. "Well, I am that, too.
Mere-Grand, fortunately, was still there, erect and courageous; the household retained its queen, and in her the children found a manageress and teacher, schooled in adversity and heroism. Two years passed; and then came an addition to the family. A young woman, Marie Couturier, the daughter of one of Guillaume's friends, suddenly entered it.
By the way, I have consulted the English manageress of this hotel, who was not particularly sympathetic. 'Perhaps you shouldn't have assumed charge of her, madam, she said, 'but having done so, hadn't you better see if you can get her into a hospital? It isn't a bad suggestion, and after a day or two we will consider it, or I will get a trained nurse to take full charge of her.
Having no mother, and being manageress in a small way at home, these trips were not unusual. Courageous as she was, when she reached the office her heart sank, and she then first remembered that she had no very solid ground for her visit. She had brooded in her bedroom over Cutts, and had thought what a grand thing it would be to save him, but when she stepped inside Messrs.
The manageress dropped into a chair and stared at her visitors. Police officers? Warrants? Justices? It was the first time in her highly respectable Bayswater existence that she had ever been brought into contact with these dreadful things. And an inmate of her establishment! "Oh, you must be mistaken!" she exclaimed in horror-stricken accents. "A warrant? that means you want to arrest somebody.
First of all they were driven to the hotel, which was a very homely sort of place, with a motherly manageress, who would insist on kissing the girls, although happily she stopped short at that, leaving the boys with a mere handshake. She was English herself, so she said, and just ached for a sight of the old country, which made her welcome so warmly everyone who came straight from England. Mr.
"It shall be done! All shall happen as you say!" "It had better," Willis rejoined, and with a menacing look he strode out of the restaurant. "The Gresham Hotel," he called to his driver, as he reentered his taxi. His manner to the manageress of the Bedford Square hotel was very different from that displayed to the German.
A stray ray of sunlight, filtering through the swaying boughs of the hawthorn, shot down on the box as the chief lifted a wad of soft paper and revealed a glittering mass of pearls and diamonds. "The Princess Nastirsevitch's jewels!" said the chief softly. "That's just what I expected ever since the manageress gave me this parcel.
'You're right, my dear Mrs. Adister, I'm on my way to the Laundry, and I called to get Captain Con to drive there with me and worry the manageress about the linen they turn out: for gentlemen are complaining of their shirt-fronts, and if we get a bad name with them it will ruin us. Women will listen to a man. I hear he has gone down to the city. I must go and do it alone.
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