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in the old days with his confounded cavalry bluster! I rather think
I will look him up: and I'll dine with him three times a week if he
likes. Meanwhile, it's time for me to go and meet old Rainham, and
take him round to Brodo- nowski's. What a ripping sunset!" And he
strolled light-heartedly through Grosvenor Square, the smoke of his
cigarette fading away behind him. CHAPTER IV. When Rainham pushed
back the door of the dim little restaurant in Turk Street, Soho, he
stood a moment, blinking his eyes a little in the sudden change
from the bright summer sunshine, before he assured himself that his
friend had not yet arrived. Half a dozen men were sitting about
smoking or discussing various drinks. The faces of several were
familiar to him, but there were none of them whom he knew; so he
took his seat at a table near the door and ordered a vermouth to
occupy him until Lightmark, whose unpunctuality was notorious,
should put in an appearance. In the interim his eyes strayed round
the establishment, taking stock of the walls with their rough
decorations, and the clientele, and noting, not without a certain
pleasure, that during the six months in which he had been absent
neither had suffered much alteration. Indeed, to Philip Rainham,
who had doubtless in his blood the taint of Bohemia, Brodonowski's
and the enthusiasm of its guests had a very definite charm. They
were almost all of them artists; they were all of them young and
ardent; and they had a habit of propounding their views, which were
always of the most advanced nature, with a vehemence which to
Rainham represented all the disinterestedness of youth. Very often
they were exceedingly well worth knowing, though in the majority of
cases the world had not found it out. He knew very few of them
personally; ho had bee...
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