She climbed back into the window an hour before
sunrise. Her little bedsitting-room was like a lair, and she went out from it into this vast, dun world,
with its smoke-gray houses, its glaring streets of shops, its dark streets of homes,
its orange-lit windows, under skies of dull copper or muddy gray or black, much
as an animal goes out to seek food. The major
hailed him with a show of relief. His example was followed by
Darrell. Several
people were passed out on the sectional sofa, and muffled
noises emanated from other rooms indicating that the
party’s embers were still smoldering, but John was
nowhere to be seen. Did she suppose him a possible pretender to her daughter’s
hand? The girl—Dorothée, if memory served—was clearly marriageable, but he
imagined most of these unhappy exiles were all but penniless. ‘I cannot possibly shoot a lady, you know. ‘Sapristi. ‘Do you need an excuse?’
‘Oh, you know what doctors are. "
"What is it?"
"That you give 'em to me. He was so seldom
wrong. "Aw, piffle!" he said, half aloud and rather disgustedly, as he stepped out into the
sunshine. He wouldn't
require my aid, but before I stopped Jonathan's mouth, he had ordered him to be
doubly-ironed, and constantly watched. The two
hostlers, however, kept close at his heels; and Jack, whose strength began to flag,
feared he could not hold much longer. We’ll go.
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