Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . he portals ofthis one, that one,rolling, befurredto the gills, in askin canoe, or onthe teeteringhump of a drome-dary, or astride aclambering mulewith bells. . .And then he count-ed his money forperhaps the twen-tieth time and,sighing deeply, de-cided on Paris. And so withinthe fortnight and Pariswere bowing toeach other. Inh i s room at thehotel in the rue lePelletier, where hewas imprisoned bythe rain, he hadtime to meditateand resolve. If hewas going to do thething, he wasgoingto do it thoroughly. come evident to him t
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . he portals ofthis one, that one,rolling, befurredto the gills, in askin canoe, or onthe teeteringhump of a drome-dary, or astride aclambering mulewith bells. . .And then he count-ed his money forperhaps the twen-tieth time and,sighing deeply, de-cided on Paris. And so withinthe fortnight and Pariswere bowing toeach other. Inh i s room at thehotel in the rue lePelletier, where hewas imprisoned bythe rain, he hadtime to meditateand resolve. If hewas going to do thething, he wasgoingto do it thoroughly. come evident to him that certain of hisfavorite authors had erred in one respect—it was absolutely impossible for anEnglishman, as such, to revel in wildadventures on the Continent. He wasexpected to limit his activities to visitingpicture-galleries and drinking tea. Thisbeing considered the acme of the racialbliss, why should he go farther? If he had any respect for romancethen, Mr. Blue could not be English. Inthat case, what? He examined himself Vol. CXXXIX.—No. 830.—34. THERE COULD BE NO DOUBT OF IT, HEWAS CHANGED It had already be- in the mirror over the fireplace. Hardlya Turk or any descendant of the , in fact, anything in the worldbut the mildest and most honorable ofBritish tradesmen. . And yet hegained some faint encouragement fromthe newly budding mustache. Perhaps,if he had some foreign clothes—? Immediately theweather permit-ted, he repaired tothe nearest shopand purchased asGallic a suit as hecould find. Thenhis eyes fell upon aflowered waist-coat, and he wouldhave a floweredwaistcoat. Andthen a cravat of ashade in which heestimated rightlythat your averageL anc shi rem anwould not will-ingly consent to befound dead, and ahat which he feltinstinctively hadbeen gotten outfor the Orientaltraveler to hisroom, he made anattempt to wax theends of his mus-tache with a bit ofsoap, and wasfaintly lock of hishair he coaxed tostraggle down the
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