The Opposite House: A Novel — page 150: what you’re looking at

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GHAPEER. XLV. bv IG AW (Or MEG HF Doctor Brand must have had some unpleasant experience. He was hurrying, with a very gloomy expression, through the streets in the direction of Heloise’s lodgings. On arriving he rushed up the stairs, and did not even consider it necessary to wait to be announced, but barely pausing to knock, entered. Heloise raised her head and looked at him in astonishment. She was kneeling on the floor before her trunk, rummaging among the heap of articles which Susanne had piled around her; closets and drawers, partly cleared of their contents, stood open. ‘The dancer threw down her embroidered negligee jacket and let her hands rest a moment. “Mon Dieu ! Brand, how long has it been the cus- tom to bounce in after this fashion ?” The visitor did not answer immediately ; he was [145] Comicboolk<s C@