in the white sands of Ismailia, beside the
bitter lake. I trust that madame can now go on with the respectable
'Catherine.'"
And with an ironic reverence to Mrs. Eustace Greyne she placed her hand
in Abdallah Jack's and vanished from the room.
"Catherine's Repentance," published in a gigantic volume not many weeks
ago, was preceded by Mr. Eustace Greyne's. When last heard of he was
seated in the magnificent library of the corner house in Park Lane next
to the Duke of Ebury's, busily engaged in pasting the newspaper notices
of Mrs. Greyne's greatest work into a superb new album.
The Abdallah Jacks have returned to the Suez Canal, bearing with them
a snug little fortune to be invested in the purchase of a coal wharf
at Port Said, and a remarkably handsome crocodile dressing-case, fitted
with gold, and monogrammed with the initials "E. G."
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