She went past
three keenly observant and ostentatiously preoccupied waiters down the thickcarpeted staircase and out of the Hotel Rococo, that remarkable laboratory of
relationships, past a tall porter in blue and crimson, into a cool, clear night. “And all the rest of it perhaps is
a song. It’s just to feel—one owns one’s self. She felt very awkward as she stared at
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the top of his ashen hair. Placing chairs, therefore, he invited the ladies to
be seated, and, paying a similar attention to Jack, began to help to the various
dishes, and otherwise fulfil the duties of a host. “He’s
quite the inventor. This done, she
waited at the side of the bed; but he gave no sign that he was conscious of her
nearness. It was long and narrow, a well-lit, wellventilated, quiet gallery of small tables and sinks, pervaded by a thin smell of
methylated spirit and of a mitigated and sterilized organic decay. She caught her finger in the lock and had to ask him to
help pry it out. Sheppard did not make her appearance quite so soon as he expected, the
carpenter became a little fidgetty, and, having succeeded in tranquillizing the
child, he thought proper to walk so far down the entry as would enable him to
reconnoitre the upper windows of the house. "
"I am here in Canton," she replied, simply. An unhappy little
sigh escaped her. .
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