But as the broad Scotch rolled onstem, implacable and sinisterthe smile faded a little and the man seemed to shrivel where he stood, as if some fiery blast touched him. When I got back the lift-man had an important face.Īt the first words of the imprecation the president of the road had lifted his head with a little smilealmost of scornon his lips, as one might watch some domestic animal reverting to its ancestral rage. I left him with the newspaper and a box of cigars, and went down to the City till luncheon. Dolan: it was like the name of a woman who washed clothes. Why could he not remember the name when he was told the first time? Was he not listening the first time or was it to make fun out of the name? The great men in the history had names like that and nobody made fun of theIt was his own name that he should have made fun of if he wanted to make fun.
He thought of the baldy head of the prefect of studies with the cruel no-coloured eyes looking at him and he heard the voice of the prefect of studies asking him twice what his name was. He was walking down along the matting and he saw the door before hiIt was impossible: he could not. Thifair ladybrother Sanchoreplied the curateino lesa personage than the heiresin the direct male line of the great kingdom As I said, he is always agreeable to my friends,
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