The young lady in the bureau said she would inquire, and Ann Veronica, while she affected to read the appeal on a hospital collecting-box upon the bureau counter, had a disagreeable sense of being surveyed from behind by a small, whiskered gentleman in a frock-coat, who came out of the inner office and into the hall among a number of equally observant green porters to look at her and her bags. That capitaine has arranged it all. He spent a good deal more money and time than he could afford upon the little room at the top of the house, in producing new lapidary apparatus and new microscopic accessories and in rubbing down slices of rock to a transparent thinness and mounting them in a beautiful and dignified manner. He loaded the launch with a thousand pounds—all she could carry—and started home immediately after sundown; but even then he lost from a hundred to a hundred and fifty pounds before he had the stuff cached in McClintock's bamboo-covered sawdust pit. “I am sorry for the way I acted, Lucy. I can’t imagine Londoners—particularly interested in me. Mike’s a fireman and he’s got kids too. Oh God! pardon me. Ruth was not a woman; she was a phenomenon. I mentioned sixty, I believe, when I was in Paris, but there are expenses, and just now business is bad.
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