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The
party
was
to
dine
together
that
evening
in
Segouin
's
hotel
and
,
meanwhile
,
Jimmy
and
his
friend
,
who
was
staying
with
him
,
were
to
go
home
to
dress
.
The
car
steered
out
slowly
for
Grafton
Street
while
the
two
young
men
pushed
their
way
through
the
knot
of
gazers
.
They
walked
northward
with
a
curious
feeling
of
disappointment
in
the
exercise
,
while
the
city
hung
its
pale
globes
of
light
above
them
in
a
haze
of
summer
evening
.
In
Jimmy
's
house
this
dinner
had
been
pronounced
an
occasion
.
A
certain
pride
mingled
with
his
parents
'
trepidation
,
a
certain
eagerness
,
also
,
to
play
fast
and
loose
for
the
names
of
great
foreign
cities
have
at
least
this
virtue
.
Jimmy
,
too
,
looked
very
well
when
he
was
dressed
and
,
as
he
stood
in
the
hall
giving
a
last
equation
to
the
bows
of
his
dress
tie
,
his
father
may
have
felt
even
commercially
satisfied
at
having
secured
for
his
son
qualities
often
unpurchaseable
.
His
father
,
therefore
,
was
unusually
friendly
with
Villona
and
his
manner
expressed
a
real
respect
for
foreign
accomplishments
;
but
this
subtlety
of
his
host
was
probably
lost
upon
the
Hungarian
,
who
was
beginning
to
have
a
sharp
desire
for
his
dinner
.
The
dinner
was
excellent
,
exquisite
.
Segouin
,
Jimmy
decided
,
had
a
very
refined
taste
.
The
party
was
increased
by
a
young
Englishman
named
Routh
whom
Jimmy
had
seen
with
Segouin
at
Cambridge
.
The
young
men
supped
in
a
snug
room
lit
by
electric
candle
lamps
.
They
talked
volubly
and
with
little
reserve
.
Jimmy
,
whose
imagination
was
kindling
,
conceived
the
lively
youth
of
the
Frenchmen
twined
elegantly
upon
the
firm
framework
of
the
Englishman
's
manner
.
A
graceful
image
of
his
,
he
thought
,
and
a
just
one
.
He
admired
the
dexterity
with
which
their
host
directed
the
conversation
.
The
five
young
men
had
various
tastes
and
their
tongues
had
been
loosened
.
Villona
,
with
immense
respect
,
began
to
discover
to
the
mildly
surprised
Englishman
the
beauties
of
the
English
madrigal
,
deploring
the
loss
of
old
instruments
.
Riviere
,
not
wholly
ingenuously
,
undertook
to
explain
to
Jimmy
the
triumph
of
the
French
mechanicians
.
The
resonant
voice
of
the
Hungarian
was
about
to
prevail
in
ridicule
of
the
spurious
lutes
of
the
romantic
painters
when
Segouin
shepherded
his
party
into
politics
.
Here
was
congenial
ground
for
all
.
Jimmy
,
under
generous
influences
,
felt
the
buried
zeal
of
his
father
wake
to
life
within
him
:
he
aroused
the
torpid
Routh
at
last
.
The
room
grew
doubly
hot
and
Segouin
's
task
grew
harder
each
moment
:
there
was
even
danger
of
personal
spite
.
The
alert
host
at
an
opportunity
lifted
his
glass
to
Humanity
and
,
when
the
toast
had
been
drunk
,
he
threw
open
a
window
significantly
.
That
night
the
city
wore
the
mask
of
a
capital
.
The
five
young
men
strolled
along
Stephen
's
Green
in
a
faint
cloud
of
aromatic
smoke
.
They
talked
loudly
and
gaily
and
their
cloaks
dangled
from
their
shoulders
.
The
people
made
way
for
them
.
At
the
corner
of
Grafton
Street
a
short
fat
man
was
putting
two
handsome
ladies
on
a
car
in
charge
of
another
fat
man
.
The
car
drove
off
and
the
short
fat
man
caught
sight
of
the
party
.
"
Andre
.
"
"
It
's
Farley
!
"
A
torrent
of
talk
followed
.
Farley
was
an
American
.
No
one
knew
very
well
what
the
talk
was
about
.
Villona
and
Riviere
were
the
noisiest
,
but
all
the
men
were
excited
.
They
got
up
on
a
car
,
squeezing
themselves
together
amid
much
laughter
.
They
drove
by
the
crowd
,
blended
now
into
soft
colours
,
to
a
music
of
merry
bells
.
They
took
the
train
at
Westland
Row
and
in
a
few
seconds
,
as
it
seemed
to
Jimmy
,
they
were
walking
out
of
Kingstown
Station
.
The
ticket-collector
saluted
Jimmy
;
he
was
an
old
man
:
"
Fine
night
,
sir
!
"
