Max Pemberton

Name: A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 11
Author: Max Pemberton

A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 11 (1896)

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“A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 11”, published in 1896, is a work by Max Pemberton. It explores elements such as Michel Grey, the Hôtel de Lille and Nicolas Steele.

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Max Pemberton, A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 11 (1896)

“ White as his face had been in the morning, the color of it in the afternoon was like a bit of plaster of Paris. And what was more than this was the way he walked, feeling his road with his hands, like a blind man, and staring before him as though he was frightened that every step he took might land him on nothing.
Never have I seen the muscles of a man's mouth twitch so much, or a man's fingers look so like claws. ”

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Max Pemberton, A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 11 (1896)

“ A more honorable gentleman doesn't breathe in Paris, and if it wasn't for the state you are in, young man, I'd let you know it too."
This silenced him a bit. He stood rocking on his heels for a minute or more, and then, muttering something between his teeth which I could not make out, he continued his march up the stairs. A quarter of an hour later, Sir Nicolas himself drove up with the young American, and he hadn't been in the hotel two minutes before I'd told him what had passed and what I'd seen. Strange to say, he took it as calm as a man hearing of the weather. ”

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Max Pemberton, A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 11 (1896)

“ The name down in the visitors' book was "Dora Grey of Boston," and just above it, I saw written, "Michel Grey, artist." But I didn't mark the man until the following morning, though Sir Nicolas, who had gone down into the garden that night, the first time for many weeks, was as full of the pair of them as he could be.
"Hildebrand," says he, "there's an American couple below which is worth the knowing. She's an artist from Boston, and she's come to the schools. It's the Greys, the railway people, they are; and rolling in the money. ”

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Max Pemberton, A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 11 (1896)

“ If it's true that a cousin of yours knew Sir Nicolas Steele in Dublin three years ago, then you'll write to him, and what you'll learn won't keep your sister at the Hôtel de Lille. Maybe that cousin is in Europe; more probably he's in America, which gives us a month. Any way, it's you that we've got to play, and the sooner we begin the better. ”

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Max Pemberton, A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 11 (1896)

“ They're the railway people, I'd be tellin' you—the Greys of Boston. That was a lucky day which sent them to the Hôtel de Lille; and for three months, too! You can do much with a woman in three months, Hildebrand."
"That you can, sir, if she's willing."
"Oh, she'll be willing enough by and by. There's no sugar for an American tongue like a title to roll over it. I was the man of the party before I'd known her an hour. She's just the sweetest bit of a brogue you ever heard, and her father's worth five million dollars. ”

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Max Pemberton, A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 11 (1896)

“ When he was gone, and the place was put a bit straight, I strolled over to the Café Rouge to get my lunch and read the English papers. Paris was beginning to be full again then, for we were almost through the autumn, and the gardens were cold at nights. But you could find the folks you wanted any time from midday until four, and no sooner was I in the place than I saw Michel Grey, the brother of the little American woman Sir Nicolas had just driven to St. Cloud. ”

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Max Pemberton, A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 11 (1896)

“ Not she. 'Tis easy for the ears to be shut when the heart is open. Sure, won't I be marrying her within the month? She's American, you must remember, and tied to nobody's apron-strings. Oh, it was a famous day that kept us at the Hôtel de Lille!"
He said this quite unconcerned, and not a bit ready to argue the point out with me. It was all very well for him to glide over it in that easy way, but what I wanted to know was, where had Michel Grey first heard talk about us? ”

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Max Pemberton, A Gentleman's Gentleman — Chapter 11 (1896)

“ He's a drug- drinker, and what he remembers to-day he'll know nothing of to-morrow, or perhaps for a month or more. Ye needn't mind him no more than a toy-pistol. I have her word for it, and that's good enough for me."
"Then his cousin wasn't in Dublin three years ago?" ”

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