at its full tide of noise and animation, and blazing with light. The
theatre was surrounded with rows of gas-jets, a circle of flame lighting
up the most obscure recesses where flickering lanterns gleamed like
stars travelling through the dark sky. The play was done. The audience
was leaving the theatre. The dark throng moved in a compact mass down
the steps and scattered to right and left along the white sidewalks, to
spread through the city the news of a great success and the name of an
unknown author, who would be illustrious and famous on the morrow. A
most enjoyable evening, causing the restaurant windows to blaze with
delight and the streets to be filled with long lines of belated
carriages. That holiday uproar, of which the poor Nabob had been so fond
and which was well adapted to the giddy whirl of his existence, aroused
him for a second. His lips moved, and his staring eyes, turned toward de
Gery, assumed in presence of death a sorrowful, imploring, rebellious
expression, as if to call upon him to bear witness to one of the
greatest, the most cruel acts of injustice that Paris ever committed.
THE END.
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KINGS IN EXILE 1 vol.
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End of Project Gutenberg's The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2), by Alphonse Daudet