Utter silence
answered him. The
music took hold of her slowly as her eyes wandered from the indistinct still
ranks of the audience to the little busy orchestra with its quivering violins, its
methodical movements of brown and silver instruments, its brightly lit scores
and shaded lights. His eyes swept down and Melusine felt the
quiver at her lips where he gazed. He flung aside all his talk of help and disinterested friendship as though it had
never been even a disguise between them, as though from the first it was no
more than a fancy dress they had put quite understandingly upon their
relationship. Then Ramage appeared with effusion, and ushered her into his inner
apartment. Henry Clay, thirteen
cents in Hong-Kong and two-bits in that dear old New York. ‘Why not a French flag?’
‘Because I don’t believe that fool Pottiswick could tell French from Arabic,
even if he heard it as he says he did—which I take leave to doubt. ” Lucy
said tenderly. “What a hideous
repertoire! If you are in earnest about wanting to earn money, why on earth don’t
you accept an engagement here?”
“An engagement?” she queried. ’
Pierced to the heart by the poignancy of this utterance, Gerald could neither
move nor speak. Finally she decided upon a
step that had always seemed reasonable to her, but that hitherto she had, from
motives too faint for her to formulate, refrained from taking. He beamed as she whispered to
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him that she had seen a table so fine or tasted such
wonders. ”
“But what have I done?”
“Elope! Go off in this way.
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