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Colville wished to beat him, but Imogene took his rebuke meekly, and murmured some apologies about not hearing the piano before. He hurried her off without recognising Colville's existence in any way.
"But," he went on, in French, for the waiter lingered, "but he might be able to persuade France that it is himself she wants might he not, now? With money at the back of it, eh?" "He might," admitted Colville, doubtfully. The Scotchman moved away, but came back again.
Monsieur de Gemosac threw away his cigarette and turned eagerly toward his companion. "Listen," he said. "I can convince you in a few words." And Colville leaned back against the weather-worn seat with the air of one prepared to give a post-prandial attention. "Such a man was found as you yourself suggest.
Monsieur de Gemosac paused, with his cigarette held poised halfway to his lips, and watched the man go past, while Dormer Colville, leaning back against the wall, scanned him sideways between lowered lids. It would seem that Barebone must have an appointment. He walked without looking about him, like one who is late.
He took his note down to the porter, who had lain down again in his little booth, but sprang up with a cheerful request to be commanded. Colville consulted him upon the propriety of sending the note to Palazzo Pinti at once, and the porter, with his head laid in deprecation upon one of his lifted shoulders, owned that it was perhaps the very least little bit in the world late.
John's were being carried on, communication between Colville and Amherst was kept up by the boats of the fleet under the charge of the third lieutenant of H.M.S. Gosport, Mr. James Cook, formerly Master of H.M.S. Mercury, who performed this duty to the complete satisfaction of Lord Colville as signified in his despatches to the Admiralty.
"No, Marquis! there you are wrong," corrected Dormer Colville, with a sudden gravity, "for we have in Captain Clubbe the very man we want one of the hardest to find in this chattering world a man who will not say too much. If we can only make him say what we want him to say he will not ruin all by saying more. It is so much easier to say a word too much than a word too little.
What is the name of the story?" "It isn't a story," said Colville. "Did you ever see anything lovelier than these statues?" "No," said Imogene. "Are they good?" "They are much better than good they are the very worst rococo." "What makes you say they are beautiful, then?" "Why, don't you see? They commemorate youth, gaiety, brilliant, joyous life.
The evil is done long before; the broken engagement is merely sanative, and so far beneficent." The old gentleman rose, and Colville, dazed by the recognition of his own cowardice and absurdity, did not try to detain him. But he followed him down to the outer gate of the hotel. The afternoon sun was pouring into the piazza a sea of glimmering heat, into which Mr.
Pierre Lawrence in Paris, where she always took an apartment in a quiet and old-fashioned hotel rejoicing in a select Royalist clientele on the Place Vendome. On arriving at the capital, he hurried thither, and was told that the lady he sought had gone out a few minutes earlier. "But Madame's maid," the porter added, "is no doubt within." Colville was conducted to Mrs. St.
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