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As the young man came into the dining-room he glanced over to where Mrs. / Bailey was sitting and then he looked away, and, unfolding his table / napkin, paid no more attention to the only other occupant of the room.
Now this was a very trifling fact, and yet it surprised our young / Englishwoman; she had become accustomed to the way in which Frenchmen, or / perhaps it would be more true to say Parisians, stare at a pretty woman / in the streets, in omnibuses, and in shops. As for the dining-room of the / Hotel de l'Horloge, it always seemed full of eyes when she and Anna / Wolsky were having lunch or dinner there.