The green tabloids / a novel by Mrs. Barré Goldie.

  • Goldie, Barré, Mrs., 1871-1938.
Date:
[between 1920 and 1929??]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The green tabloids / a novel by Mrs. Barré Goldie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a question of perhaps three hours before he met Desdemona again. He had ascertained that they were expected, she and 44 Madame ” Brender- wood. He was, indeed, fairly sure that they were in the hotel now, dressing, as he was, for dinner. Paris dined very late just then, and he was desperately hungry, had he but known it. But it would never have occurred to him to eat until Desdemona came. When he was dressed he went downstairs and sat down in a corner of the great Lounge, where he could see all and attract the minimum of attention to himself. The orchestra, one of the best in Europe, was playing some very rapid music with a shrill cry repeated at intervals. For a time Michael sat on and watched and listened, quite unconscious of the interest he himself called out in others, merely curious as to the personalities who came and went. Many of them belonged to the social world of both London and Paris, and now and again he recognised some collector of pictures or sculpture with whom he was acquainted. At any other time he would have jumped to his feet, followed, and waited for an opportunity to make himself known, for Michael’s intelligence was of far too high an order to make him an egotist. Full well he knew, artist that he was, that the more he knew, the more he could learn. Indeed he was unconscious, at this stage of his career, that he had anything to impart. He was thirsty for knowledge, for criticism. Later on, in after