The Red Neighbour  (English, Paperback, W. J. Eccott)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: cian in whom you will have confidence. It will expedite my ambitions." " It would perhaps have been easier to offer you a more solid reward." " Madame!" The virtue of Dr Levani was patent in every tone of reproach. " No ! It is a service I am going to do you because I love to benefit mankind. I only ask a wider scope. That is all!" " It is understood! You will wait till I invite you. Your address ?" "Dr Levani, No. 3 Rue Christine. Permit me to conduct you to a coach." CHAPTER III. TOO OLD FOR DOLLS. In the garden of the Hotel de Polignac, on a grass plot, lying prone, with her elbows on the marble edge of a fountain, watching the gold fish, was Mademoiselle The'rese de Polignac. Nanette, madame's maid, stood by, quite happy to be doing nothing, thinking of nothing, ready to chatter. " You are listless this morning, mademoiselle. Nothing amuses you." " I am getting too old to be amused, Nanette," said the girl, drawing the tips of a long tress of hair through the water. "Nevertheless, it is a fine morning, and I am as lazy as Monsieur Speckle-back there. He is just like Monsieur Colbert. Look how slily he sticks in the green shadow by the pipe!" " The pipe, mademoiselle ?" "Yes. The pipe that goes up into the Triton and carries the water that he spouts." "La! mademoiselle. Is that the way of it? How clever you are getting! It never entered my head," Mademoiselle's expression was reflected brokenly in the water. " No ? I am not surprised. All you have to do is to obey orders, not to think. It is we others who think. We cannot help thinking though we are lazy." " Ah, they teach you fine things at Meudon ! No wonder you do not play when you have a holiday." "It is well enough at the convent. But one cannot stay there for ever." It was o...