Chapter 3—Effect of an Item of News
On entering the hall where the fourth meeting of the Hygienic Conference was being held, Dr. Sarrasin realized that he was being received with unusual tokens of respect. The Right Honourable Lord Glandover, the president and chairman of the assembly, had not hitherto condescended to appear conscious of the French doctor’s existence.
This nobleman was an august personage, whose business it was to declare the Conference open or closed, and, using a list placed before him, to call upon the various speakers who were to address the meeting.
He habitually carried his right hand in the breast of his buttoned coat, not because it was injured and needed support, but only because it was the custom for English sculptors to represent statesmen in this inconvenien
