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There was not the least hope in the world for hiht He realized this clearly, now that he was face to face

with actualities It required ht hiles of the Orient He ht line, the shortest distance between two

given points How then should he pass the night, since none of his schemes

could possibly be put into operation? Return to his hotel and smoke

himself headachy? Try to become interested in a novel? Go to bed, to turn

and roll till dawn? A wild desire seized hiht of

it,--Maxim's, the cabarets; riot and wine Who cared? But the desire burnt

itself out between two puffs of his cigar Ten years ago, perhaps, this

particular brand of aed hihts Indeed, his dissipations had been

whimsical rather than banal; and retrospection never aroused a furtive

sense of shaht conjecture in

passing To such casual reckoning he appeared to be in the early twenties;

but scrutiny, le

there, was disposed to add ten years to the score There was in the nose