Cooley I have learn is
coincidentally arrived also. You see I think it would be
very pleasant to have the dinner to welcome these friends on
their arrival. You will come surely--or I shall be so truly
miserable. You know it perhaps too well! We shall have a
happy evening if you come to console us for renouncing our
drive. A thousand of my prettiest wishes for you.
"Helene."
The signature alone consoled him. To have that note from her, to own it,
was like having one of her gloves or her fan. He would keep it forever,
he thought; indeed, he more than half expressed a sentiment to that
effect in the response which he wrote in the aquarium, while Sneyd
waited for him at a table near by. The Englishman drew certain
conclusions in regard to this reply, since it permitted a waiting
friend to consume three long tumblers of brandy-and-soda before it was
finished. However, Mr. Sneyd kept his reflections to himself, and, when
the epistle had been dispatched by a messenger, took the American's
arm and led him to the "American Bar" of the hotel, a region hitherto
unexplored by Mellin.
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